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Why does blame need to be assessed at all? Snow is to blame, ice is to blame, mother nature happens.
by underseacables 6y ago
Why does blame need to be assessed at all? Snow is to blame, ice is to blame, mother nature happens.
- Kye 6y agoNature didn't build the power grid or decide which engineering compromises to make.
- underseacables 6y agoThat’s true, but in order to build that power grid and decide on engineering compromises, certain assumptions had to be made about Mother Nature, and what the likelihood of what may happen. It wound be unreasonable to assume any system is built with all contingencies in mind.
- WalterGR 6y agoI don’t know how many times this needs to be said, but the lack of winterization in Texas’s energy supply chain was and is a known issue. Other comments, which are worth reading, go into detail about how this event isn’t even close to some “all contingencies” handwave. (It got cold. This isn’t aliens invading.)