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UPDATE: Kitty was rescued and is safe! This poor cat has been stuck for 5 days, and Xcel Energy is refusing to turn off electricity so the cat can be rescued (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

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[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 11 points 3 months ago

A backup system that isn’t tested regularly is not a backup at all, just the illusion of one.

If you can’t turn the power off with 24h notice then nature will turn it off with zero notice at the most inconvenient moment.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I do not follow the logic of people being so blinded by their love of cats that they literally think they can become electrical grid engineers and know all the risks, just because they want to know them.

It does not matter if every single vulnerable building has backups and tested them yesterday (obviously none of that could ever be close to true), it's still a non-zero risk to human lives, for one cat.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

The cat isn’t part of the equation, I gave no opinion on that. The risk of never testing your failure response is much higher than the risk of testing your failure response.

If a test happens to save a cat? Lucky cat. If not, they’ll still have to test it at some other point anyway.