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I'm not sure what is meant by Redditors... I haven't used Reddit in many years. Admittedly anectodal, but I don't remember any power outage here in Chicago ove

by cozzyd 1y ago

I'm not sure what is meant by Redditors... I haven't used Reddit in many years. Admittedly anectodal, but I don't remember any power outage here in Chicago over the last 11 years I lived here, but I was in Texas for work for a few weeks this summer at the NASA balloon base and there were multiple power outages.

next_xibalba 1y ago
The Houston metro area is particularly bad. When I lived in Austin, the outages were very rare. In Houston, I would guess there is at least 1 outage every month that lasts for an hour on average.
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vel0city 1y ago
Anecdotal, but I've lived in DFW for over a decade. The only time I lost power for more than a minute was due to a drunk driver hitting a utility pole just outside my house. They had the pole fixed and everything working again within an hour.
- bdcravens 1y ago
  Having lived in both DFW and Houston, I will definitely say Houston's infrastructure is much more fragile, but the weather is also much more extreme.
  - vel0city 1y ago
    Yes, I agree. It was common to lose power for a day or so when the big hurricanes rolled through growing up Houston.
skeaker 1y ago
"Redditor" in this context is just an internet-savvy way of saying "sheeple."