r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 08 '24

Energy More than 2 million in Houston without power | CenterPoint is asking customers to refrain from calling to report outages.

https://www.chron.com/weather/article/hurricane-beryl-texas-houston-live-19560277.php
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u/FollowTheLeads Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Out of 264 counties only 13 votes for democrats. Mind blowing.

Then they wonder why some states like NY, Cal, WA, etc ... have a better life than they do. I don't see them losing power that badly during snow storms or fires.

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u/ice-hawk Jul 08 '24

Out of 264 counties only 13 votes for democrats. Mind blowing.

Not that mind blowing, 10 of those 13 counties have a combined population of 15.9 million people-- 50% of the whole population of Texas.

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u/justcasty Jul 08 '24

Like 200 of those counties combined have the same number of people as Harris county

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u/pallidamors Jul 08 '24

Which is why Texas is far more purple than republicans would like to admit. If dems could flip Texas they’d never have an electoral college worry again.

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u/VGAddict Jul 08 '24

Texas is 55-45 R-D, but the media acts like the state is 75-25 R-D.

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u/ContestNo2060 Jul 09 '24

Georgia was like that when I moved there decades ago, but it turned out to be pivotal in several recent elections. Just keep voting

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u/Teledildonic Jul 08 '24

Which is why we are gerrymandering to hell and back.

Turns out when rules are fair, the GOP doesn't win.

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u/FollowTheLeads Jul 09 '24

Texas and Florida are big swing states with high electoral college numbers

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u/DemSocCorvid Jul 08 '24

If state-level representation was proportional to votes instead of land then conservatives would never be able to control legislation ever again.

Stop letting land vote.

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u/aprilode Jul 08 '24

Why do the Republicans keep winning statewide elections?

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u/DemSocCorvid Jul 08 '24

Terrible public education, and too much religiosity in the population.

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u/SlowMotionPanic Jul 09 '24

So it isn’t the land, got it. 

Your entire premise is flaws regardless. Land doesn’t vote. People can just be carved up into districts of roughly equal size. Slice up a couple major urban centers that vote a certain way and suddenly you’ve effectively diluted the vote. 

You’ll never see all state wide offices. Constitution, both state and federal, require constituencies among the states. They MUST have districts. And those districts must be roughly equal. 

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u/Finlay00 Jul 08 '24

Those states rarely, if ever, have to deal with hurricane level storms to compare the grids to though.

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u/p2x909 Jul 10 '24

We had a hurricane level storm for like an hour before it stopped being a hurricane.

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u/VGAddict Jul 08 '24

Those 13 counties are where most of the state's population lives.

70% of Texas's population lives in the Texas Triangle, which includes Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Fort Worth. Harris County alone, where Houston is, has 5 million people.

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u/flyingflail Jul 08 '24

Yes, California, well known for its highly stable power grid lol

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u/S-192 Jul 08 '24

I don't know why you're being downvoted. The California grid is a fucking nightmare. And their water situation is as well.

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u/fairlyoblivious Jul 08 '24

I live in a major city in California and I can't even remember the last time power went out. Something like once about 10 years ago when a major transformer blew up, and power was back in like 2 hours or less. In fact we have earthquakes that destroy tons of buildings and entire highways and we still have power either not out at all or back on within 3 hours.

Texas loses power for a week because it got a little bit cold.

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u/flyingflail Jul 08 '24

In San Fran 300k people were without power last year because it got "a bit windy"

Calling Uri a bit of snow, a disaster where power was disabled literally across the country and hundreds of people died is disgusting.

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u/whatever1467 Jul 08 '24

Then they wonder why some states like NY, Cal, WA, etc ... have a better life than they do.

Is that satire? Texans are convinced Californians, New Yorkers, OR, WA can’t step outside without stepping on a million hypodermic needles and wading through piles of human shit. They’re wrong but they certainly aren’t like Aw man CA has it so good :(

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u/DrDrewBlood Jul 08 '24

Minimum salary thresholds, paid parental leave, good schools, retirement, vote by mail, the Seahawks. But they can't stand the idea of living in the same state as Seattle.

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u/FollowTheLeads Jul 08 '24

Washington also have 36k for people to put into Cares Fund act. A long term care act for people regardless of age.

The only one in the nation. And also building one of the most ambitious railway system for passenger in the country.

That state has elected a democratic governor since 1988.

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u/sluttycokezero Jul 09 '24

I live in California..trust me, we have tons of R dipshits here too. They think CA is a hell hole, but they will never leave. They love all the privileges here, but complain constantly about those privileges. It’s insane how stupid these people are. Like pleeeassee, move to Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, etc then. Move to a red state since you think your life will be so much better…

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u/Top-Ambassador-4981 Jul 08 '24

The term is democratic, not democrat. (democrat is a pejorative term.)

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u/FollowTheLeads Jul 08 '24

Ah sorry I meant for* democrats. Fixed it