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unethical_ban on Oct 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: California power outage triggers chaos in science ...

Surely, PG&E will learn their lesson during this outage and send crews across the state to trim brush along the transmission lines? Strengthen the towers?

Uncharacteristic edit: Why the downvotes? It must be because you took the comment seriously and think the sentiment grossly naive, or heard the skepticism and thought it unwarranted?

_skel on Oct 11, 2019 | [–]

They blew up an entire neighborhood in San Bruno ~9 years ago. They don't learn.

anigbrowl on Oct 11, 2019 | [–]

I'm good friends with a lineman, and his view is that they just haven't been willing to make sufficient investments in resources, staff, or training.

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