(02-18-2021, 10:22 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I agree with most of what you posted there. However, I am cautious to assign "blame" when something is a once in a century event. That would be like attacking Republicans in Florida because they don't want to create legislation that would mandate home builders implement the same earthquake codes as San Francisco. Sure, it would help if there ever was an earthquake here, but at what cost? Housing prices would skyrocket if we had to enact every fail safe used for every different type of environmental disaster.

Southern California has the WORST driving conditions when it rains there, because their roads don't shed water the same way as ours. They have to worry about creating roads that will survive the dry heat. The simple fact is that people tend to build their systems around their environment, and people don't always take every fail-safe. Humans are always trying to balance risk vs reward in the pursuit of happiness.

I think it's foolish to blame Republicans for the power outage in the same way I think it's foolish to blame Democrats for the green energy failure. It's just a freak storm. I wish we lived in a culture where politicians could just acknowledge that they were caught with their pants down, and move forward with the promise of correcting that issue in the future, without having the opposition pounce on it like they would have magically prevented this disaster.