RE: Quarantine Diaries: Day 343
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I'm originally from Buffalo and can share the sentiments of today's meme. 😀
Concerning Cruz's re-surfaced tweet I thought he was back then remarking on frequent service failures during normal day-to-day operations not under the stress of severe weather, or no?
It's clear that California has an established trend of out-migration.
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So heat then, cold now.
Ah, gotcha.
Did the heat wave break power plants and lines? Or only increase demand? If only the latter I'd say comparing one remark to the other is in the same ballpark, but not directly on point. As a Minnesotan you're likely aware that winter storms can directly cripple infrastructure even with good planning in places where they are frequent.
If the grid actually didn't function because of the extreme heat then I'd agree it's apples-to-apples. Maybe it did happen that way. I haven't dug into the details.
I don't like to see politicians use natural disasters for political games in the thick of the events anyway. On that basis I don't think Senator Cruz's comment was a great one.
Still, I am very pleased to live in Arizona right now. And would definitely choose Texas over either California or New York. Many former Californians have agreed over the past few years.
I think in California some the transmission grid went offline because of fires. In Texas at least some of the problems have been due to cutting corners with the infrastructure (i.e., not spending money to winterize the network) following deregulation.
I’ve looked at Arizona (Prescott in particular) but the precarious water situation in all of the Southwest is concerning. My wife has family in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington state so those are maybes but I’ve never experienced an earthquake (other than sleeping through one a few years ago when visiting), but have zero interest in Southern California. I on the other hand have family in New Jersey but its cost of living is nuts.
Meh, maybe @revisesociology has the right idea, move to a yurt in Portugal. 😅
I love yurts. Especially hexayurts. Someday I may build a hexayurt compound on a desert acreage.