Why is a simple power outage controlled chaos in S. California, but a much longer power outage coming from a hurricane and torrential rains does not cause chaos on the east coast?
Is it cultural?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1456495 Well those rains are common and predicted. You expect them to happen.
These power outages are sudden and people just don't know what's going on.
I mean if you see a huge storm and the power goes out, ok the storm caused it.
imagine you're at work and the power just completely goes out for no apparent reason. Phone lines are dead you can't get a hold of anyone. Its confusion and chaos, people over there probably thought "terrorism, aliens, nuclear explosion" you really just don't know what hit you.
And ill chime in and say that its very hard to believe one person randomly knocked over a chord and shut down power for half the west coast.
Absolutely. When someone cut the line INTENTIONALLY in the Bay Area and it COMPLETELY cut off Santa Cruz County and other ares from the rest of central California, it was FREAKY.
The power went out on a beautiful sunny day. There was NO reason for the power to go out. It was not a heat wave. There was ZERO communication in or out of our area with the rest of the world.
It caused alot of concern and confusion. And we are a small town area with a sliver of freeway running through it. We are not a large metropolitan area like the area affected.
