Speaking of high voltage, BPA is putting in a new transformer substation near my home. The project has been on again, off again due to supply chain problems, particularly for the big components. Now the parts have arrived and being put in place with cranes. The whole affair looks otherworldly — nothing like traditional substations. The big towers and insulators keeping the three phases separate (I guess) look straight out of Tesla’s lab. And everything is sort of a silvery grey like you’d imagine a UFO to be. I’d take pictures but they have security cameras all over and would think I was a “terrist” or something
In this article I wonder if the older guy has dementia. Not trying to excuse him by any means but the lapses sure sound like it, especially if this kind of thing was not characteristic of him in earlier years.
Good point. It may not be dementia yet, but certainly those brief “senior moments” occur which could lead to a disaster like this. Anybody in their 60s or older knows.