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I wonder if these things had something to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

> Of the Act's top ten recipients, seven states had voted majority Republican, with Wyoming ($1.95 billion) and Texas ($1.71 billion) in the lead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Impact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act#Implem...


I live in Florida.

Is the new rail you’re talking about the brightline?

It pretty much exclusively goes to and from tourist centers and is far too expensive ($40-$60 per seat each way) to deter most residents from just driving to Orlando. I wouldn’t really call it infrastructure (like the tri rail is.)

Not to mention that it’s the deadliest train in the US. People here barely follow traffic laws, but when you have it passing through major foot traffic areas every hour like on antlantic avenue in Delray Beach, people are going to get hit.


You'd rather not have it?


Rather not have the deadliest train in the US fly through high foot traffic areas every hour?

Yes, I’d rather not have that.

I’d rather them just add a route from palm beach to Tampa. Or extend the tri rail to Orlando.

The brightline prices out most residents, since it’s just about as expensive (or cheaper) to drive as it is to take the brightline.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/death-train-a-timeline-of...


Texas currently has snow again, so expect it's grid to catastrophically fail again because it doesn't have access to the rest of the USA grid.

So expect a bad result again for like the 4 time in 5 year.


Hi from Austin, TX - we have no "abnormal" power outages right now and the tiny bits of snow look kinda cute


Grid is fine, snow is melting, everything is business as usual. CenterPoint had 99.9% deliverability for the past 24 hours, and ERCOT has 14,781 MW in reserve power available (https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions). Source: I live in Houston.

I know this was tongue in cheek, but c'mon, we can respect each other, right? :)


> we can respect each other, right?

If we taking cues from the leader of the country, probably not


Don't? He controls our government, not our behavior.


I'm doing my best not to, but we can all observe that Donold has made it acceptable for many people


Snow did not cause the outage.




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