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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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

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[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

They reroute and turn off sections of wiring all the damn time for maintenance, they have crews out in the field who are literally going around, turning some lines off after turning others on, and doing routine work on lines, transformers and other components. It's not life and death, it's just a company being cheap and lazy.

If having a love for life and wanting better outcomes and hope and inspiration for innocent life baffles your sense of logic, then maybe your sense of logic is flawed and holding you back from emotional growth.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sure go ahead and assume I want the cat to die. Which I didn't. What the fuck.

The cat was rescued apparently anyway.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

You're digging yourself into a hole that seems oblivious to normal human feelings and getting irate at the responses. This is all you baby.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks 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.