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> That said, the recent incident suggests that quality-of-service has probably decreased. I don’t even know if this is true. I think _the system_ was never des

> That said, the recent incident suggests that quality-of-service has probably decreased. I don’t even know if this is true. I think _the system_ was never designed for this type of weather. It would have failed had this weather happened in any of the prior years too. We just need to quit ignoring the footnotes when they say “100 year flood” or similar things that people often sweep under the rug when designing building codes, energy system SOP around weather proofing, etc. In Texas, if Harvey and now this event has taught us nothing else it’s that anything can happen at any time. The statistical approach to rareness of certain events should be a warning which it hasn’t been. It’s been a minimum bar to achieve and while debatable where the bar belongs it seems like the bar should be higher.

altcognito 6y ago
They were specifically warned about winterizing in 2011, the current governor sued to prevent "over-regulation". While we can't say what would have happened, it can't be said that they didn't have an opportunity to potentialy avoid a problem.
- conductr 6y ago
  That’s my point. They knew it was a fringe chance this could happen. We do this risk assessment elsewhere and easily ignore the risk like they did. Why did they rebuild New Orleans? We all know it’s flooding again right? They expect it to not happen on their watch but it very well could happen tomorrow. Just like Texas didn’t want to invest in winterizing each and every year just in case a once in a hundred year event happens. I’m suggesting we need to take these fringe occurrences more seriously. Especially when we know weather volatility is likely to increase.
  - hilbertseries 6y ago
    If Texas was on the federal grid they also would have been able to import excess power from other states and ease the energy crunch.
    - conductr 6y ago
      While true, it’s not new information and likely has not eroded services for Texas consumer

altcognito 6y ago

They were specifically warned about winterizing in 2011, the current governor sued to prevent "over-regulation". While we can't say what would have happened, it can't be said that they didn't have an opportunity to potentialy avoid a problem.

conductr 6y ago
That’s my point. They knew it was a fringe chance this could happen. We do this risk assessment elsewhere and easily ignore the risk like they did. Why did they rebuild New Orleans? We all know it’s flooding again right? They expect it to not happen on their watch but it very well could happen tomorrow. Just like Texas didn’t want to invest in winterizing each and every year just in case a once in a hundred year event happens. I’m suggesting we need to take these fringe occurrences more seriously. Especially when we know weather volatility is likely to increase.
- hilbertseries 6y ago
  If Texas was on the federal grid they also would have been able to import excess power from other states and ease the energy crunch.
  - conductr 6y ago
    While true, it’s not new information and likely has not eroded services for Texas consumer