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It's obvious that everyone wants to blame it on their favorite villain, whatever that is. A more rational approach would be to look at comparable cities and se
by AlbertCory 2y ago
It's obvious that everyone wants to blame it on their favorite villain, whatever that is.
A more rational approach would be to look at comparable cities and see how they cope with big storms, whatever the storms' cat numbers. My guess is, no matter what comparables you pick, Houston comes out on the bottom.
Maybe it IS deregulation! You can be in favor of it in general, and still admit, "OK, maybe in this instance it didn't work." That doesn't mean you're giving free rein to the people in favor of the government regulating everything.
- dingnuts 2y ago[flagged]
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- bryanlarsen 2y agoLet's rephrase that. "Centerpoint Energy comes out on the bottom". I believe that's a statement Houstonians can get behind enthusiastically. (Although PG&E is also doing well in this race to the bottom".
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- blantonl 2y agoThe issue was exactly the same with Ida and New Orleans in 2021. Areas of the New Orleans metro area were without power for 3 weeks or more
- AlbertCory 2y agoso that's one comparable. Surely there are other First World cities that have storms?
- vel0city 2y agoSprawling cities with millions of people that experience Gulf hurricanes? Miami, which also experiences massive power outages when they're hit with even category 1 hurricanes. > The rains caused flooding, and the combination of rains and winds downed trees and power lines, leaving 1.45 million people without power. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
- presentation 2y agoLook to Asia, all the major coastal and island cities have far bigger storms than whatever Houston experiences, many times a year, and they pretty much all fare better than this.
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- AlbertCory 2y agoSomeone (maybe in Houston!) should compile a list of all those cities, the storms they've had, and the number of power outage days they suffered. Not a cherry-picked list of "good" cities; ALL of them. That would be a lot of research, for sure.
- alexk307 2y agoHouston is a low-lying coastal city surrounded by rivers and bayous whose population has increased 10x since 1950. Not really an ideal situation to build out that kind of housing for millions of people in floodplains.