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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/news-flash-gov-katie-hobbs-165752520.html   
      
   On Friday, on the 22nd day of Arizona’s record heat wave, the governor of   
   Arizona sent a letter to the state’s power providers that sounded very   
   much like a demand.   
      
   Katie Hobbs told the utilities she wants their “action plans for   
   protecting Arizonans during this unprecedented heat wave.”   
      
   When the CEO of the State of Arizona tells you that, it means now.   
      
   The governor then went out on social media and shared her demand letter   
   with the people of Arizona:   
      
   “Today, I sent a letter to Arizona’s utility companies asking for written   
   plans outlining how they will protect Arizonans during this devastating   
   heat wave, and inviting them to discuss how we can work together to better   
   prepare for the future.   
      
   “You can read my letter HERE.”   
      
   Arizona power companies aren't winging it   
   I don’t know about you, but this immediately provoked a question for me:   
      
   “Were the eye rolls at the state’s largest utilities executed with the   
   same sweep and rotation as my own?”   
      
   In fact, I started to imagine some power engineer named Frank pulling the   
   sleeve of his colleague, Joe, saying, “Did you see the governor’s note?”   
      
   To which Joe smiles and says:   
      
   “Action plan? What action plan? Didn’t we decide to just wing it this   
   year?”   
      
   Even with record heat, the power's on   
   Let’s be clear about this.   
      
   This year’s summer heat wave is the mother of all heat waves, but we’ve   
   had similar heat waves and, besides, every summer is a furnace in Arizona.   
      
   If the utilities mail in their work on any given summer and deliver   
   blackouts and brownouts across Phoenix and Tucson, people die. Perhaps in   
   the thousands.   
      
   So yes, you can bet there’s an action plan.   
      
   The action plan delivering electricity to the governor’s home and gym and   
   grocery store and 9th floor office this hellish summer was years in the   
   making.   
      
   In fact, the power and infrastructure to amply cover the record electric   
   demands across our entire state had to be secured over the past decade and   
   beyond.   
      
   If utilities had no plan, we'd know it   
   The utilities are the most tightly regulated businesses in Arizona. And a   
   sure sign of their success is that they are a crushing bore.   
      
   We have elected officials called corporation commissioners who oversee the   
   power producers in our state, and I’ll bet 99 out of 100 Arizonans could   
   not name one of those commissioners.   
      
   If the utilities were in the habit of falling down on the job, you would   
   be in the habit of throwing out all the spoiled food in your refrigerator   
   while wrapping yourself in wet towels to try to sleep at night.   
      
   How to improve? Phoenix's heat response draws criticism   
      
   Were that so, you can bet your melted butter you’d know the names of those   
   commissioners.   
      
   You’d have them on speed dial.   
      
   We can now quantify the lives saved   
   It only takes one day of blackout in an Arizona summer to get our   
   attention.   
      
   Which makes this summer so remarkable.   
      
   In her letter to the state’s utilities, Hobbs noted the Phoenix Metro area   
   has seen “18 confirmed heat-related deaths, with 69 additional suspected   
   as of July 15.”   
      
   That’s one side of the ledger.   
      
   Researchers in a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society   
   have projected the other side. They’ve quantified the lives those same   
   utilities have saved.   
      
   Their study published earlier this year in the journal Environmental   
   Science & Technology showed that an extended power blackout in a five-day   
   heat wave, about a third shorter than the one we’ve experienced this year,   
   would increase the death rate by 700% in Phoenix.   
      
   That would amount to some 13,250 deaths or about 1% of the population.   
      
   But the truly stunning number is that half of Phoenix residents would   
   require “emergency department” treatment. That’s 816,570 people rushing   
   toward our hospitals.   
      
   That’s not a disaster. That’s the apocalypse.   
      
   Hobbs should coordinate, but not like this   
   We are not experiencing anything approaching that this summer and haven’t   
   in summers past.   
      
   And perhaps instead of snapping her fingers at the utilities and making   
   demands, Hobbs might have begun by acknowledging their essential role and   
   stellar performance in this state.   
      
   This is not a year to take the utilities for granted. They are saving   
   untold lives.   
      
   Hobbs is not wrong to coordinate efforts. It’s a good idea. We don’t know   
   how long this heat wave will last and what hardships lay ahead.   
      
   But how you do this matters.   
      
   The governor’s memo and tweet make her look like the drum major who jumped   
   in front of the parade.   
      
   Three weeks too late.   
      
   Phil Boas is an editorial columnist. Email him at   
   phil.boas@arizonarepublic.com.   
      
   This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Phoenix heat wave   
   prompts demand from governor, way too late   
      
      
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