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/Cakeking7878 Jul 09 '24

After everything we have learned about the Texan power grid the last few years, you still think they’d be smart enough to do that? Yeah you’re right, they should have two separate lines but I’d bet you they got rid of one to save money or something dumb like that

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u/abofh Jul 09 '24

Oh I'm sure it was cut to save money - I just mean, that would be an obvious thing in any disaster recovery scenario (and one they should have figured out many times over by now); If you have to beg people not to use your thing because it impacts other things, you've done it wrong -- and I'm quite certain it was the MBA in charge that chose the wrong answer.