I totally agree with your line of thinking, but I think they need to do a lot more planning to use this avenue of prevention. And now the Governor is demanding they pay for turning the juice off!
Oh, without a doubt, but these guys are pretty hamstrung. Yesterday Newsome was darn near ordering PG&E to give every customer $100 and every business $250 for the outage. PG&E CEO said no way and they would not consider paying on ANY lawsuit.