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Every winter is a stretch, yes. But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. A couple hundred people died.
by ceejayoz 7mo ago
Every winter is a stretch, yes.
But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. A couple hundred people died.
- amarant 7mo agoWhich actually works out to rather more than one person per winter, when averaged out.
- card_zero 7mo agoLike all the Canadians who die every winter in the Halifax explosion of 1917.
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- gottorf 7mo ago> But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. Cost is always a valid reason! > A couple hundred people died. Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. So this happens frequently in states that aren't in its own interconnection, too.
- ceejayoz 7mo ago> Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. In their powerless homes? I don't doubt people get lost in the woods. But that's not some systemic failure.