Hollywood Disaster Flic Could’ve 4Seen Hydro-Blackout

It’s no laughing matter when the WSJ reports, “West Risks Blackouts as Hydroelectric Power Dries Up.”

Yet, it’s becoming too easy to satirize the region’s “progressive” policy makers when “heat waves across the West are already straining electricity supplies, as severe drought crimps hydroelectric power generation.” Well color me as naïve as those policy wonks apparently are, at least, considering extreme variations in desert & mountainous terrain should have been baked into their wind, solar & hydro energy planning. Have these folks ever heard of “worst case scenarios” needing to be covered, too?

Apparently not. And trying to talk some sense into them may be like a naked energy consumer howling at the blue moon. The bad news Westerners are now facing whilst it’s too late to do anything about it right now: “Some of the region’s largest reservoirs are at historically low levels after a dry winter & spring reduced the amount of snowpack & precipitation feeding rivers & streams. The conditions are esp dire in drought-stricken California, where officials say the reservoir system has seen an unprecedented loss of runoff this spring…” Haven’t we seen that “unprecedented” excuse in Hollywood’s disaster movies before?

Davd Soul