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Equally important to remember that this has nothing to do with the ‘quality’ of the Texas electric grid because Texas it’s superior to all other states in every possible way.
Maybe not as equal, but lets also remember that congress just passed a bill to make private jets impossible to track.
Now the media tried to figure out a way to sell this headline to get as many clicks as possible, and they came up with putting Taylor Swift in the headline. Thats fans now can't track her jet.
But the real story there is, that THIS time, we have no idea if Ted Cruz flew to Alaska.
What? If it's cold he flies to Cancun. I figure if it's hot he flies where it's cold. Stands to logic.
Point is.......how do we know if Ted Cruz is being a slimey little weasle again? Besides the fact that it's Ted Cruz.
What many Texans don't know (or don't wanna know) is that theirs is not a flag, but a rating.
I just flew through Dallas, barely missing these storms by like 2 hours. It was the first time I'd been there.
Holy crap, that airport is a shit hole. Everything feels disgusting and in disrepair. The bathrooms were so unclean, the carpets looked 50 years old, the trams were falling apart.
That's the first and only time I will ever be in Texas. Texas is the "shit hole country."
For these events it's people not keeping their trees trimmed and away from power lines. Nevermind Oncor refuses to bury the lines because the upfront costs are too expensive.
The outages we saw last year because demand outpaced supply was definitely because we have a shitty power grid.
Unless Texas is somehow different than Ohio (possible, I know) people aren't responsible for this. The power company is the one that should be maintaining proper clearances, installing protective devices to isolate sections, etc.
Source: I worked for a power company for almost 2 decades and now am doing grid mod consulting.
But look at how close those trees are to the power line!
Dude, electrical substations were in shambles and high voltage towers were knocked to the ground in the storm that hit Houston a couple weeks ago. This isn't a tree trimming issue, there were 100mph sustained straight-line winds
TIL: Texas is the only state with trees.