Re: California public safety power shutdowns

["Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, at 08:02, Mel Beckman wrote:

> The fire risk is from electrical transmission lines, not from end users 
> of electrical power. The underlying problem is that the State’s rules 
> for line separation were ill-considered, making it possible for 
> high-enough winds to cause “line slapping” and the resultant arcing 
> that ignite fires. 
>
> There is no reason to think that end users are of any particular risk, 
> and fuel delivery during a preemptive outage wouldn’t be impaired, 

That looks like a situation that you don't often encounter elsewhere (where electricity - distribution, telecom and 
transport are not very far from one another).