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One question I have is did DOGE decisions have anything to do with this? Because I know they took knives to NIST.

Residents and some businesses of Boulder have been without power since Tuesday. There was an issue about 10 years ago which caused 1000 homes to burn down and the power company was found liable. They change their actions. Then during the next high wind event, the power company preemptively cut power and businesses sued them for loss of revenue. Now the power company is playing it safe and turning off power to residents and keeping downtown businesses powered.

Maybe their generator failing was DOGE related, but wouldn’t have happened if state level shenanigans were better handled

The Marshall fire was 4 years ago. Almost to the day.

Actually DOGE involvement at the highest level would have resulted in Tesla solar and Tesla powerwall battery backups.

Lol, lmao.

Some relevant DOGE’s effects:

-time and frequency division director quit

-NIST emergency management staff at least 50% vacant

-NIST director of safety retired, and NIST safety was already understaffed when compared to DOE labs

-NOAA emergency manager on the same Boulder campus laid off

etc

Any day now

> […] Tesla solar and Tesla powerwall battery backups.

Don't forget Solar Roof.

Apparently no engineers here anymore, all armchair politicians.

When the politicians take a hatchet to the underpinnings of society that we built, we have to get political.

So sad, we used to innovate and stay one step ahead of them. That’s how wealth is created.

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