To bad his wife and the daughter and other family members who were woken by the wife's screaming didn't practice some pre blackout (which everyone was warned of) preparations with his back up oxygen. Kinda having trouble working up sympathy over this one.
I dont understand why they turned off the power, she said. No winds at all. And because of that, my father is gone. Blaming them is not going to bring my father back, unfortunately.
Mardis, who had severe coronary artery atherosclerosis, breathed with the help of a nasal tube. His family, who had been told by power utility PG&E to expect the planned outage, had battery-operated backup machines ready for him to use but the timing of the sudden shutoff, at 3:30 a.m., caught them unawares.