I agree with this. My point is simply that we, as an industry, are not a very competent bunch when it comes to risk management ; and that's especially true when compared to TSOs.

That doesn't mean nobody knows what they do in our industry or that shit never hits the fan elsewhere, but I would argue that it's an outlier behaviour, whereas it's the norm in more secure industries.

> As the meme goes "one does not simply just run something on AWS"

The meme has currency for a reason, unfortunately.

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That being said, my original point was that utilities losing clients after a storm isn't the consequence of bad (or no) risk assessment ; it's the consequence of them setting up acceptable loss thresholds depending on the likelihood of an event happening, and making sure that the network as a whole can respect these SLOs while strictly respecting safety criteria.