Well, Houston just rode out Hurricane Beryl, and let me tell you, it blew

It's pretty weird to use something I've written about in the abstract for so long.

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What I find hard to process is that Hurricane Ike knocked out power to 2.1 million customers in 2008. It was a much larger and more powerful storm. Large parts of Houston saw sustained hurricane force winds. A decade and a half later a comparably weaker Beryl (very few if any parts of Houston saw sustained force hurricane winds) knocked 2.3 million CenterPoint customers offline, or 85 percent. It's hard to understand how the resiliency of the transmission system (separate from the grid) seems to have gotten worse. A smart society learns, adapts, and improves.

I might suggest, it's easy to understand, just hard to justify.

Just invest nothing into social services and infrastructure, and what you had will get worse. Easy-peasy.