10 Oct
2019
10 Oct
'19
3:07 a.m.
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).