Because they don’t want to. Everything they do is designed to enrich their sponsors. The interests of the public are entirely irrelevant.
They don’t want to because they are trying to do everything they can to destabilize the US to appease their Chinese and Russian overlords.
Project 25 anyone?
The citizens of Texas voted for this to happen
I’m CERTAIN the Voters of Texas will VOTE OUT the people Responsible for this JUST like they did last Election after the Snowstorms!
I mean… A hurricane hit, and it damaged power equipment along several major cities. Some parts of Houston saw flooding, and a lot of roads are still inaccessible right now which further delays repair efforts. Not sure what else you’d expect to happen.
This isn’t like the previous failures of Texas’s busted-ass power grid in recent years; those previous outages weren’t from weather damage, but from being unable to keep up with demand due to our government’s stubborn refusal to make use of the national grids. Those outages could’ve been largely mitigated if not for bureaucratic bullshit, but there’s little you can do to prevent a hurricane from doing hurricane things. The article goes into pretty great length to detail the damage the hurricane left behind, yet doesn’t seem to link the cause to the effect.
I’ll happily shit on our medieval government 7 days a week, but this feels like a stretch.
Not sure what else you’d expect to happen.
Houstonians are upset because when it comes to hurricanes, the category matters a lot.
When it passed through Houston, Beryl was a tropical storm sitting just under the threshold for category 1 hurricane status. Category 1 is the lowest grade of hurricane there is. Even still, 85% of Centerpoint’s grid lost power at the peak.
That’s a worse result for the power grid than previous storms that were higher category storms. So it definitely looks like Centerpoint has been neglecting maintenance recently.
This right here. Ive lived here all my life and this storm ranks really low on my list of shit I’ve seen and high on shitty recovery. The flooding wasn’t even that bad, a normal amount for rough storms and it drained quickly
Because a natural diaster hit? Florida doesnt keep the power on when a hurricane hits them. Is this just a Texas bad post, or do you literally not know about the hurricane?
