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News flash! Gov. [goofball...] Katie Hobbs discovers we need electricity to survive this heat wave
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jul 26, 2023, 3:52:31 PM7/26/23
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On Friday, on the 22nd day of Arizona’s record heat wave, the governor of
Arizona sent a letter to the state’s power providers that sounded very
much like a demand.
Katie Hobbs told the utilities she wants their “action plans for
protecting Arizonans during this unprecedented heat wave.”
When the CEO of the State of Arizona tells you that, it means now.
The governor then went out on social media and shared her demand letter
with the people of Arizona:
“Today, I sent a letter to Arizona’s utility companies asking for written
plans outlining how they will protect Arizonans during this devastating
heat wave, and inviting them to discuss how we can work together to better
prepare for the future.
“You can read my letter HERE.”
Arizona power companies aren't winging it
I don’t know about you, but this immediately provoked a question for me:
“Were the eye rolls at the state’s largest utilities executed with the
same sweep and rotation as my own?”
In fact, I started to imagine some power engineer named Frank pulling the
sleeve of his colleague, Joe, saying, “Did you see the governor’s note?”
To which Joe smiles and says:
“Action plan? What action plan? Didn’t we decide to just wing it this
year?”
Even with record heat, the power's on
Let’s be clear about this.
This year’s summer heat wave is the mother of all heat waves, but we’ve
had similar heat waves and, besides, every summer is a furnace in Arizona.
If the utilities mail in their work on any given summer and deliver
blackouts and brownouts across Phoenix and Tucson, people die. Perhaps in
the thousands.
So yes, you can bet there’s an action plan.
The action plan delivering electricity to the governor’s home and gym and
grocery store and 9th floor office this hellish summer was years in the
making.
In fact, the power and infrastructure to amply cover the record electric
demands across our entire state had to be secured over the past decade and
beyond.
If utilities had no plan, we'd know it
The utilities are the most tightly regulated businesses in Arizona. And a
sure sign of their success is that they are a crushing bore.
We have elected officials called corporation commissioners who oversee the
power producers in our state, and I’ll bet 99 out of 100 Arizonans could
not name one of those commissioners.
If the utilities were in the habit of falling down on the job, you would
be in the habit of throwing out all the spoiled food in your refrigerator
while wrapping yourself in wet towels to try to sleep at night.
How to improve? Phoenix's heat response draws criticism
Were that so, you can bet your melted butter you’d know the names of those
commissioners.
You’d have them on speed dial.
We can now quantify the lives saved
It only takes one day of blackout in an Arizona summer to get our
attention.
Which makes this summer so remarkable.
In her letter to the state’s utilities, Hobbs noted the Phoenix Metro area
has seen “18 confirmed heat-related deaths, with 69 additional suspected
as of July 15.”
That’s one side of the ledger.
Researchers in a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society
have projected the other side. They’ve quantified the lives those same
utilities have saved.
Their study published earlier this year in the journal Environmental
Science & Technology showed that an extended power blackout in a five-day
heat wave, about a third shorter than the one we’ve experienced this year,
would increase the death rate by 700% in Phoenix.
That would amount to some 13,250 deaths or about 1% of the population.
But the truly stunning number is that half of Phoenix residents would
require “emergency department” treatment. That’s 816,570 people rushing
toward our hospitals.
That’s not a disaster. That’s the apocalypse.
Hobbs should coordinate, but not like this
We are not experiencing anything approaching that this summer and haven’t
in summers past.
And perhaps instead of snapping her fingers at the utilities and making
demands, Hobbs might have begun by acknowledging their essential role and
stellar performance in this state.
This is not a year to take the utilities for granted. They are saving
untold lives.
Hobbs is not wrong to coordinate efforts. It’s a good idea. We don’t know
how long this heat wave will last and what hardships lay ahead.
But how you do this matters.
The governor’s memo and tweet make her look like the drum major who jumped
in front of the parade.
Three weeks too late.
Phil Boas is an editorial columnist. Email him at
phil...@arizonarepublic.com.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Phoenix heat wave
prompts demand from governor, way too late
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On Friday, on the 22nd day of Arizona’s record heat wave, the governor of
Arizona sent a letter to the state’s power providers that sounded very
much like a demand.
Katie Hobbs told the utilities she wants their “action plans for
protecting Arizonans during this unprecedented heat wave.”
When the CEO of the State of Arizona tells you that, it means now.
The governor then went out on social media and shared her demand letter
with the people of Arizona:
“Today, I sent a letter to Arizona’s utility companies asking for written
plans outlining how they will protect Arizonans during this devastating
heat wave, and inviting them to discuss how we can work together to better
prepare for the future.
“You can read my letter HERE.”
Arizona power companies aren't winging it
I don’t know about you, but this immediately provoked a question for me:
“Were the eye rolls at the state’s largest utilities executed with the
same sweep and rotation as my own?”
In fact, I started to imagine some power engineer named Frank pulling the
sleeve of his colleague, Joe, saying, “Did you see the governor’s note?”
To which Joe smiles and says:
“Action plan? What action plan? Didn’t we decide to just wing it this
year?”
Even with record heat, the power's on
Let’s be clear about this.
This year’s summer heat wave is the mother of all heat waves, but we’ve
had similar heat waves and, besides, every summer is a furnace in Arizona.
If the utilities mail in their work on any given summer and deliver
blackouts and brownouts across Phoenix and Tucson, people die. Perhaps in
the thousands.
So yes, you can bet there’s an action plan.
The action plan delivering electricity to the governor’s home and gym and
grocery store and 9th floor office this hellish summer was years in the
making.
In fact, the power and infrastructure to amply cover the record electric
demands across our entire state had to be secured over the past decade and
beyond.
If utilities had no plan, we'd know it
The utilities are the most tightly regulated businesses in Arizona. And a
sure sign of their success is that they are a crushing bore.
We have elected officials called corporation commissioners who oversee the
power producers in our state, and I’ll bet 99 out of 100 Arizonans could
not name one of those commissioners.
If the utilities were in the habit of falling down on the job, you would
be in the habit of throwing out all the spoiled food in your refrigerator
while wrapping yourself in wet towels to try to sleep at night.
How to improve? Phoenix's heat response draws criticism
Were that so, you can bet your melted butter you’d know the names of those
commissioners.
You’d have them on speed dial.
We can now quantify the lives saved
It only takes one day of blackout in an Arizona summer to get our
attention.
Which makes this summer so remarkable.
In her letter to the state’s utilities, Hobbs noted the Phoenix Metro area
has seen “18 confirmed heat-related deaths, with 69 additional suspected
as of July 15.”
That’s one side of the ledger.
Researchers in a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society
have projected the other side. They’ve quantified the lives those same
utilities have saved.
Their study published earlier this year in the journal Environmental
Science & Technology showed that an extended power blackout in a five-day
heat wave, about a third shorter than the one we’ve experienced this year,
would increase the death rate by 700% in Phoenix.
That would amount to some 13,250 deaths or about 1% of the population.
But the truly stunning number is that half of Phoenix residents would
require “emergency department” treatment. That’s 816,570 people rushing
toward our hospitals.
That’s not a disaster. That’s the apocalypse.
Hobbs should coordinate, but not like this
We are not experiencing anything approaching that this summer and haven’t
in summers past.
And perhaps instead of snapping her fingers at the utilities and making
demands, Hobbs might have begun by acknowledging their essential role and
stellar performance in this state.
This is not a year to take the utilities for granted. They are saving
untold lives.
Hobbs is not wrong to coordinate efforts. It’s a good idea. We don’t know
how long this heat wave will last and what hardships lay ahead.
But how you do this matters.
The governor’s memo and tweet make her look like the drum major who jumped
in front of the parade.
Three weeks too late.
Phil Boas is an editorial columnist. Email him at
phil...@arizonarepublic.com.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Phoenix heat wave
prompts demand from governor, way too late
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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