If the power grid in your area loses its billing system should it just shut down?
What I don’t get is why they couldn’t gather the data manually to keep things running and sorted it out after the fact. They didn’t have any DR planning for something like this? Station people with clipboards and cameras at all meters. Measure the inputs and outputs as they occur. It seems there was just no real impetus to act responsibly here.
That's expensive. You have to have someone do all that paerwork, the paperwork has to exist (printing and doc management), and there needs to be a hard copy of the business agreement on a per customer basis.
I mean, I'm kinda old timey, so ot"s not infeasible from my point of view; but in today's hyper-optimized, bottom-line over-fault-tolerance world, I don't see that happen all that much.
Heck, I have trouble getting a straight answer out of the youngin's to "What is a filing system?"
What I don’t get is why they couldn’t gather the data manually to keep things running and sorted it out after the fact. They didn’t have any DR planning for something like this? Station people with clipboards and cameras at all meters. Measure the inputs and outputs as they occur. It seems there was just no real impetus to act responsibly here.