Tornadoes and devastating thunderstorms have left nearly 300,000 residents across seven states without power as of Monday night.
Over the weekend, huge storms killed at least 23 people and left a path of destruction across the central US.
Forecasters said the greatest weather risk has shifted east, covering a broad sweep of the country from Alabama to New York.
More thunderstorms, damaging wind gusts, hail and flash flooding are expected.
Power companies say it’s too expensive to bury power lines but they will fix the overhead lines over and over.
And every telcom company agrees with them.
Last time I looked at a BOM, it was between $40k & $60k per mile to bury fiber, even more for rockier terrain.
Fiber doesn’t burn down huge swaths of the United States when a pole falls over. It’s not really “cheaper” after the lawsuits start rolling in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/texas-smokehouse-creek-fire-xcel-energy.html
Welcome to the new normal.
No, it’s going to get worse.
Normally worse.
Exponentially normally worse.
Neighborhood backup batteries would help with this and help smooth out renewable energy.
and from over construction
our town has rolling blackouts constantly with an increase in the bill to match
US had energy problems before this current issue
That’s kinda crazy. I always thought that a thing from the movies. In 40 years i only remember 3 blackouts, and two of them were when i was like 7 and it had just an absurd amount of snow.