Interesting. I’ve always heard they were immune. > On Jan 3, 2021, at 6:11 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not sure what you're talking about. PG&E was found liable for many billions > of dollars of property damage after several fires were determined to have > originated from their falling power lines. They had to go bankrupt to resolve > the cost. > > They were also found liable when their poorly constructed gas line blew up > and removed a couple dozen homes from the face of the earth (also cot them > billions). > > Many years ago, they had a problem that grounded one side of a split phase > transformer. It cause one phase to our house to go dead, and the other phase > to go to 220 volts. Blew up numerous things. PG&E had to cough up replacement > cost for all the things we had to replace. > > Of course, your mileage may vary. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > >> On 1/3/2021 3:03 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >> How is it that power companies have immunity from damage? >> >> It’s like a Shaggy song. >> Send a surge that blows appliances? Wasn’t me. >> Send 60 volts for 5 minutes that kills stuff? Wasn’t me. >> Food all goes bad because we killed your freezer? Wasn’t me. >> >> I’m not talking about a full on outage. That happens. But how do power >> companies get away with immunity from provided improper service that blows >> stuff? >> >> > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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