[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

a Katrina moment is when the electrical grid is severely damaged and people had to flee the area to avoid the heat with lots of elderly not able to survive the heat without electricity. a tornado hitting / damaging generation stations, large substations, transmission towers, etc. . . all is not always flood related nor topography related as a metaphor. Electrical inventories are not sufficient to rebuild after a hurricane. Transformers are not made in mass quantities, and have limited production. . Hurricane Andrew blew out the electrical system at a networking components production building at a company at which I worked in the early 1990s in Florida, not near the ocean. a bit of an electrical metaphor, not a flood metaphor. . not a topography metaphor.

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Much more specific....thank you SG