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[โ€“] mkwt 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what else you'd expect to happen.

Houstonians are upset because when it comes to hurricanes, the category matters a lot.

When it passed through Houston, Beryl was a tropical storm sitting just under the threshold for category 1 hurricane status. Category 1 is the lowest grade of hurricane there is. Even still, 85% of Centerpoint's grid lost power at the peak.

That's a worse result for the power grid than previous storms that were higher category storms. So it definitely looks like Centerpoint has been neglecting maintenance recently.

[โ€“] CreativeShotgun 6 points 5 months ago

This right here. Ive lived here all my life and this storm ranks really low on my list of shit I've seen and high on shitty recovery. The flooding wasn't even that bad, a normal amount for rough storms and it drained quickly