alt Hacker News> But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons.
Cost is always a valid reason!
> A couple hundred people died.
Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. So this happens frequently in states that aren't in its own interconnection, too.
> Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average.
In their powerless homes?
I don't doubt people get lost in the woods. But that's not some systemic failure.