I’ve been through several, several hurricanes. I’m surprised when I don’t lose power. I’ve lost power for almost 3 weeks. It never even occurred to me to blame the power company. I believe the only way to solve this would be to spend a kabillion dollars and bury all the cables.
And even then, the grid would fail due to submerged transformers.
I read you, and I don’t see such storms in the NW. Our big issue looming is blackouts due to government policies here, and I’m trying to figure out how best to mitigate that problem before the likelihood of such blackouts increases 1-300%.
You cannot really bury high tension in a swamp and Houston is built on a swamp.
Center point deserves some blame but the local government deserves more.
You cannot really bury high tension in a swamp and Houston is built on a swamp.
Center point deserves some blame but the local government deserves more.
You mean like just about every city in Europe.
I recall the power going out only a handful of times as a kid in the 60s and 70s. Now it's a regular occurrence. We used to be a real country. Now we're becoming a Third World s---hole because that enriches the business and political elites.