"As of about 2:30 p.m., police officers were still on scene directing traffic at the intersection of High Street and Silver Street, where a traffic light remained out. Earlier in the afternoon, as many as 120 customers were without power, according to an Eversource outage map."
A pretty run-of-the-mill story, not many people involved. No big deal except, well:
…from a Washington Post story the other day:
"State officials are reluctant to ask ratepayers to foot the bill for investments experts say are needed to fortify the grid against increasingly severe weather."
Also that. Power out all over the place, small and big, more and more…
And yet the increasingly frantic demand from D.C. to electrify everything, including the entire vehicular fleet ASAP.
Even assuming we can generate all that power without fossil fuels, we'll still need to distribute it. And the grid's looking more and more, day by day, like a wreck.
Infrastructure.
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