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The city should renew its franchise agreement with SDG&E, the only bidder, because it should want to hold SDG&E not San Diego taxpayers responsible for the liabilities that come from running a utility.
Published May 17, 2021 at 8:16 AM PDT
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David Taylor, who has muscular dystrophy, relies on a ventilator to live. During the power outages across Texas in February, he had to be transported to a hospital before his ventilator s backup battery ran out.
For four decades, David Taylor has relied on a ventilator to breathe, the whoosh, whoosh of the machine part of the background metronome of daily life. Then, on the night of Feb. 14, an Arctic blast began to overwhelm the Texas power grid. The next morning, the electricity flickered out in the Fort Worth home that the 65-year-old shares with his mother.
David s ventilator switched over at some point to a backup battery and kept running. A family member brought over a generator and spent several hours trying, unsuccessfully, to get it working in the sub-freezing air. By nightfall, the one-story house had gone around 12 hours without power, other than an hour or so when the lights briefly turned on, recalled David s 89-year-old mother, Dorothy Taylor. The temperature inside