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> Bottom line: there isn’t an easy solution to weather events that happen once in a hundred years [...] I think it’s extremely misguided to characterize this s
by monkpit 6y ago
> Bottom line: there isn’t an easy solution to weather events that happen once in a hundred years [...]
I think it’s extremely misguided to characterize this storm in this way. We will probably be in for more of these types of events sooner than later.
- ashtonkem 6y agoIt’s not just a bad characterization; it’s a lie. Texas’ power grid had issues due to the cold in 2011, and the current temps were last experienced in 1989. That’s once in 31 or 10 years, depending on how you want to slice it. Not 100, nowhere close to it.
- monkpit 6y agoVery true. I also (still) think the frequency of these events is not going to be constant, but increasing.