Are there any plans being made to prevent this happening in the future?

Yes, the US government is banning all those democrat windmills that conspired to blow over the NTP server.

	▲	Muromec 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It would greatly decrease electricity prices too. God knows how expensive it is to power those gigantic spinning things
	▲	groundzeros2015 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		??? The power outage was voluntary and surrounding towns chose not to turn off power. They could absolutely make infrastructure changes, and I’m sure the backups for power could make changes too.
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