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They didn't do it after 2011. I don't see why 2021 would be different. These once-a-decade events cost very little compared to winterizing. TX is on year 23

• nxm 5y ago
  Would still take it over California’s utilities and their costs. How many hundreds of millions can be spent and still have regular blackouts…
  • whoiskevin 5y ago
    I’ve lived in both places and if you think not having power during a week of sub 20 degree temps compares to not having power when it is 40-60 degress outside then I guess we have different ideas of what is better.
  • draw_down 5y ago
  • mrguyorama 5y ago
    There's 48 other states who all have their electricity infrastructure more or less together. Here in Maine we experience the weather Texas had basically bi-weekly in normal winters (it's been very mild the past few years) and IF your power goes out, it's back on in 4 hours, 20 if it's a particularly bad storm and you are a low priority area. Meanwhile the wind turbines up north will happily keep spinning, and at no point has generation failed.