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harimau777 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Houston-area residents enter sixth day without pow...

Note that I said "I don't know that it would help in this specific instance"

Previous outages have been caused by issues with the grid rather than lines. Apparently CenterPoint is predicting that this summer power usage will near the grid's capacity and supposedly CenterPoint is known for underestimating.

wannacboatmovie 11 months ago [–]

Okay, but none of that has anything to do with the power lines being physically mangled or toppled by wind.

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