…because the infrastructure is not meant to withstand extreme weather.
It’s unreasonable to expect a blizzard in southern Texas. It would be unreasonalbe to expect snow in Miami.
No country could deal with it. It’s not a US problem.
It’s unreasonable to expect a blizzard in southern Texas. It would be unreasonalbe to expect snow in Miami.
No country could deal with it. It’s not a US problem.
Texas' grid failure was absolutely a planning/operations failure and should have had the capacity to operate during a blizzard.
(And extended heat waves, too. But still a hypothetical for now)
It was a widespread infrastructure failure that ultimately caused the power grid to fail too.
> The widespread winter storm produced low temperatures across the region. This is an unusual event, much worse than the worst case that was considered in recent prior planning. The result was loss of power plants, loss of natural gas supply, felled power transmission lines, damaged gas pipelines, damage to water systems, and so on, across the board. There was a loss of more than 50 percent of generation capacity at the same moment as electric power demand surged above the predicted peak forecast.
Sure you assess probabilities in your design, but not to the point of assuming the most probable outcome will always obtain. If there's only a 2% probability of some unwanted outcome need to consider not only the probability but what's at risk if your probability assessment turns out to be wrong, and make sure at least some of your infrastructure is bomb proof.
It's unreasonable to expect those things as the norm, it's not at all unreasonable to expect that they might occur and have some sort of contingency plan in place. You'd have to have been living under a rock for the last 30 years to ignore the possibility of freak weather events.
Yes, but it would be unreasonable to expect my ribcage to withstand a 12 gauge buckshot from point blank range.
You could argue that I could wear a bulletproof vest. That would stop the said 12 gauge buckshot blast, but would it be reasonable to wear it in the first place?