>Do other states regularly have multi-day outages that impacts hundreds of thousands of people? Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy

>Do other states regularly have multi-day outages that impacts hundreds of thousands of people? Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy_in_New_York https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy_i... Sandy was relatively weak when it hit the East Coast. Most Texans wouldn't blink an eye at a category 1 with 80 MPH winds. That's the same wind speeds as the storm that hit Texas a few weeks ago and knocked power out.