El Paso can't produce its own electricity and schools and business' are closed. So, is this an emergency caused by the weather? Hmmm. Seems that mother nature is a great teacher - just when we think we're safe and that there's a plan in place we find out how susceptible we really are and how dependent we are, and how close to the edge we are to not having any energy to even get water from the tap.
I was asked not too long ago to submit testimony to the Emergency Preparedness subcommittee for the Texas legislature, ya know, the kinda thing that happens when a hurricane or tornado or other natural disaster wreaks havoc on our everyday. Well, I posited that an even bigger disaster would be precipitated by an event that left us without electricity - say - a coronal mass ejection.
Seems that we didn't the sun after all - just a cold snap (well a really bad one). Does anybody care to guess at the economic impact of having rolling black-outs for the last two days?
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