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They didn't shut down areas with hospitals or other important facilities. Likely there aren't many such facilities in minority areas.
by username90 5y ago
They didn't shut down areas with hospitals or other important facilities. Likely there aren't many such facilities in minority areas.
- vlovich123 5y agoAt the bottom of the article: the prescience of these important facilities decreased the probability of a shutdown from 0-6%. Probably look for a better hypothesis. What was also interesting is that it correlated with altitude of the meter which indicates a preference for wealthier neighborhoods. The problem is that the data Hash collected is incomplete and hard to draw conclusions from: * It’s a war driving effort of a small strip of Dallas * The data becomes impossible to capture as normal interruptions happen and reset the uptime counter. It’s also unclear to me if these uptime counters are affected by having a generator or other backup power supply. One of the examples he noted was a Chase Bank that hadn’t experienced an interruption at all.
- nonameiguess 5y agoThe effect sizes and neighborhood-level disparities were referring to a nationwide study of all blackout conducted by the cited universities (and LLNL), in case that wasn't clear. Hash's war-driving data from Dallas is totally separate. I live in Dallas and can tell you there was no disparity during this last winter storm. Unless you were critical infrastructure, they blacked out everyone. I live within spitting distance of city hall and I was still losing power every few hours for two weeks.