Having lived in Texas, I'm not entirely convinced their red-state energy infrastructure could be said to be designed at all.
If that's what a storm does in May, hurricane season is going to be exciting this year.
All this time dumbshits were complaining about how much it would cost to avert global warming. Well, since it's too late to avoid the problem, I have bad news about how much it's going to cost to live through the problem.
Have had the same thing happen here regularly, leading to blackouts, at which point the usual suspects come creeping out of the woodwork muttering about renewables
My parents live just over the border in Louisiana and have lost power, internet, and running water for weeks on end at least 3 times in the last five years, all in "once in a lifetime" storms. It's fucking infuriating.
See, but this doesn't happen every day, meanwhile our factories and manufacturing centers are almost all built on heat islands with no manufacturing. 120° heat as working conditions just aren't possible. Not that shutting all our production down for large chunks of summer wouldn't be beneficial
