[gottorf]

> But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons.

Cost is always a valid reason!

> A couple hundred people died.

Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. So this happens frequently in states that aren't in its own interconnection, too.

[ceejayoz]

> Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average.

In their powerless homes?

I don't doubt people get lost in the woods. But that's not some systemic failure.