[Eric in the Ozarks]

These are terms common to the coal industry.

[dirtboy]

And so tell me again what they have to do with the core premise of this article - that the EPA's anti-coal mandates had bearing on this particular outage.

They don't.

And I am opposed to those mandates. And opposed to the anti-fracking dingbats. But that doesn't change the fact that this was a weather-related phenomenon, possibly aided in places by spot opposition to tree-trimming around power lines. But some storms go beyond that, when they bring down the entire tree on a power line and not just an overhanging limb.