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Old 02-22-2021, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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A lot of people seem to bringing this up.


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...utage-map.html

This is map reflects Tuesday night, which is the peak, where 4.4 million CUSTOMERS (as it was previously debated "individuals" vs "households/businesses"), customers reflect the latter, or about 35% of all of Texas at this time had reported power outages.

Of the "Big 5", Harris County seems to be the least his by percentages... However, Galveston County appears to have been the hardest hit in all of the state. As someone who lives in the Greater Houston area, there was definitely a lot of chatter about how hard Galveston was hit, so this doesn't surprise me. Some of Houston further northwest suburbs also seem to be hit harder. It seems to be where the money is at gets spared.

On the contrary to Greater Houston, DFW appears to have been fairly evened out in the entire metroplex. While DFW counties are showing more outages by percentage over Harris County, none received even close to the high amounts of outages that Southern Greater Houston (Galveston and Brazoria counties) have shown.

Much like DFW, the Central Texas outages seemed a bit less segregated, but more impacted than DFW (again just in percent of outages).
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Old 02-24-2021, 05:42 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Did you know that when the term "customers" is used, it includes both business and residential customers? Now, and I find this interesting, I can't seem to find the exact percentages, which I have easily found in the past and have posted on at least one thread here, but I believe that businesses make up about 60 percent or more of electricity customers.

Anyway, boil notices are gone now in my area, and we never experienced long term or widespread power outages, though we did have a few (myself included) for a few hours. We also had a bit of "water drama" but that has passed. My pool survived well. The ground is so wet that I haven't attempted to turn on the sprinkler system yet, so we'll see about that. I have a work order in for a small septic system issue. Overall, I feel very blessed.
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