Not angry enough to get their elected officials to make the power grid changes needed to make it more robust to such things.
I mean how can they when reps like Ted Cruz fly off to Cancun when the weather gets really bad.
I mean how can they when reps like Ted Cruz fly off to Cancun when the weather gets really bad.
“People have a right to be extremely frustrated with CenterPoint. People are suffering through terribly oppressive heat, a lack of food and gasoline availability, debris everywhere, and much more,” Patrick said. “The poor and most vulnerable are suffering the most.”
Not, “People have a right to be frustrated with the government,”
From the outside, your own country seems to have a dystopian liking for government control of speech and the internet.
If your daily experience does not align with this perception, consider that Texans might be in exactly the same boat as you, perception-vs-reality-wise.
Acting like Texas isn’t uniquely shitty requires intentionally forgetting reality.
Do you have the magic solution that makes them resilient to natural disasters short of burying every single power line underground? Which is not only impractical but insanely expensive. The infrastructure has been physically damaged or destroyed. You fired off a politically charged comment and offered no specifics.
"Do you have any suggestions other than what would actually work??"
I don't know that it would help in this specific instance, but connecting Texas to the rest of the power grid would likely make the system overall more resilient.
The only way you can prevent damage from falling trees is to completely remove them.
Irrelevant wishful thinking. The outages are caused by localized physical damage. There is no shortage of grid power. Inter-ties to every grid in the world wouldn't help when the wires on the last mile have been physically destroyed.
Previous outages have been caused by issues with the grid rather than lines. Apparently CenterPoint is predicting that this summer power usage will near the grid's capacity and supposedly CenterPoint is known for underestimating.