California public safety power shutdowns

[nanog at radu-adrian.feurdean.net (Radu-Adrian Feurdean)]

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 Stateâ??s rules 
> for line separation were ill-considered, making it possible for 
> high-enough winds to cause â??line slappingâ?? 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 wouldnâ??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).