Frustrations are mounting across southeast Texas as residents enter a fourth day of crippling power outages and heat, a combination that has proven dangerous – and at times deadly – as some struggle to access food, gas and medical care.
More than 1.3 million homes and businesses across the region are still without power after Beryl slammed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday, leaving at least 11 people dead across Texas and Louisiana.
Many residents are sheltering with friends or family who still have power, but many can’t afford to leave their homes, Houston City Councilman Julian Ramirez told CNN. And while countless families have lost food in their warming fridges, many stores are still closed, leaving government offices, food banks, and other public services scrambling to distribute food to underserved areas, he said.
Do you know what “redundancy” means?
Do you? If power lines get knocked down, they’re ain’t gonna be no electricity. What states have “redundancies?”
If route A is down, route B is used.
This is redundancy.
Texas only has route A.
That is the issue. Power cannot come from anywhere else than route A because there is no connection to the national grid, route B.
This doesn’t prevent last leg localized power outages, but it does prevent the widespread grid wide failures Texas regularly experiences.
But you don’t want to hear this, so go buy a diesel generator instead and enjoy being independent.
I already have a generator. And we are literally discussing the last leg here. Our grid is fine.
Lmgdao.
If you think your government forcing regular citizens to buy generators to make sure they aren’t without power is normal, you’re a lost cause.
The Texas grid would be better off it it wasn’t solely reliant on local sources and has redundancy. Your answer to that is to become the redundancy out of your own pocket. Lol
Our grid is fine? Jesus, bury your head deeper in the sand. There have been multiple reports on the issues with the grid in Texas.
Unless the grid has redundancies…
But like, I’m assuming you didn’t mean to use a double negative there?
I dunno man, I don’t think we’re gonna work this out there seems to be communication issues
You’re part of the problem. No matter what breaks down in a Republican system you people do whatever you can to avoid the reality that Republicans are greedy. And their greed hurts you. But sure, let’s blame nature even though no other state has a problem on this scale, this often.
Bro, you think Republicans can control the hurricanes and I’M part of the problem? Y’all people delusional.
Never said that bud, need to read better.
What they can control is the integrity of their grid. No other state has this problem. Plenty of states get hit by hurricanes and none have this massive statewide emergency multiple times a year.
But ya blame the weather, not the people fleecing you as your grid is in shambles.
Literally every state except for texas. The longest power outage I’ve ever personally seen in my entire life was less than 10 hours and that one only affected a couple city blocks. Most power outages in my area last less than a minute because thats all the time it takes to automatically reroute power around the damaged sections. In any reasonably designed grid large scale power outages that last more than a few moments just don’t happen.