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Their population doubled in size over the last quarter century. Maybe that has something to do with it.

• ironmagma 2y ago
  So what you're saying is they scaled too fast?
• wiml 2y ago
  So half their infrastructure is less than 25 years old and it still wasn't built up to snuff?
  • gregw2 2y ago
    It doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers: https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-centerpoint-best-prepare-power-lines-for-major-storms/ https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce... That said, I’d expect to be able to see this effect on the outage maps and I don’t.
  • gregw2 2y ago
    True, but it doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers: https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-centerpoint-best-prepare-power-lines-for-major-storms/ https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce... That said, I’d expect to be able to see this effect on the outage maps and I don’t, at least from an eyeball perspective.
    • jen20 2y ago
      Anecdotally, plenty of areas with buried lines have outages still.