Comment by sgnelson

5 days ago

One question I have is did DOGE decisions have anything to do with this? Because I know they took knives to NIST.

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grepfru_it  5 days ago

Residents and some businesses of Boulder have been without power since Tuesday. There was an issue about 10 years ago which caused 1000 homes to burn down and the power company was found liable. They change their actions. Then during the next high wind event, the power company preemptively cut power and businesses sued them for loss of revenue. Now the power company is playing it safe and turning off power to residents and keeping downtown businesses powered.

Maybe their generator failing was DOGE related, but wouldn’t have happened if state level shenanigans were better handled

cramcgrab  5 days ago

Actually DOGE involvement at the highest level would have resulted in Tesla solar and Tesla powerwall battery backups.

  • redbush237  5 days ago

    Lol, lmao.

    Some relevant DOGE’s effects:

    -time and frequency division director quit

    -NIST emergency management staff at least 50% vacant

    -NIST director of safety retired, and NIST safety was already understaffed when compared to DOE labs

    -NOAA emergency manager on the same Boulder campus laid off

    etc