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I'm not a fan of Texan electrical isolationism, but "people dying every winter from power outages" is stretching it a bit...

• ceejayoz 6mo ago
  Every winter is a stretch, yes. But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. A couple hundred people died.
  • amarant 6mo ago
    Which actually works out to rather more than one person per winter, when averaged out.
    • card_zero 6mo ago
      Like all the Canadians who die every winter in the Halifax explosion of 1917.
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  • gottorf 6mo ago
    > But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. Cost is always a valid reason! > A couple hundred people died. Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. So this happens frequently in states that aren't in its own interconnection, too.
    • ceejayoz 6mo ago
      > Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. In their powerless homes? I don't doubt people get lost in the woods. But that's not some systemic failure.
• seanmcdirmid 6mo ago
  Ya, it was just one winter where people actually died, it was recent though.