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It happens in California all the time but you only mention it happening in Texas. Why is that? If you were unaware that it happens in California, why is that?
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
It happens in California all the time but you only mention it happening in Texas. Why is that? If you were unaware that it happens in California, why is that?
- the_only_law 4y agoThis is not relevant to their post. Why is that?
- mousetree 4y agoPerhaps because they are South African? As another South African I have heard of blackouts in Texas (and your Ted Cruz going on holiday) but I haven't heard about anything in California (other than the Enron related power shortages).
- lmm 4y agoThe "wrong" party is in power in Texas, so problems there are far more widely reported.
- staindk 4y agoBecause it's been in the news I consume, I guess. I saw a diagram like this [1] somewhere, perhaps a John Oliver video. It seems Texas is on their own grid and I think wherever I learned that mentioned that Texas has not been maintaining/upgrading the grid to the degree that they should. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-American-electricity-interconnections-Image-is-from_fig1_283018221 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-America...
- truffdog 4y agoI mean, it happened in 2019 with the big wildfires, and it happened when Gray Davis was governor in like... 2003? It's not really a regular thing.