everytime there's a storm (rain, snow, sleet whatever) it seems like the entire state suffers way more than it should

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/why-texass-power-grid-still-hasnt-been-fixed

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>Houston still has lots of nice pockets. And real estate is
>still pretty doggone cheap so there's that! I couldn't imagine
>trying to afford my house here in another really big city.
>
>Besides that? Yeah, people are getting dumber and more
>comfortable with being quite dumb. Identity politics is
>brutal. And, at least to me, people seem to think they're on
>Twitter no matter where they are: their jobs, public places,
>wherever.
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>I'm embarrassed with how people are turning politics to their
>religion.
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>And don't even start me on religion and how much sillier
>people have gotten with it. And again..its the comfort that
>gets to me. And if you ask ANY questions about it, you might
>get a 'cuz Jesus' answer, the convo is just over, and no one
>is going to 'learn' ANYTHING.
>
>And if its not that, its race and sexual orientation/identity
>stuff. I think I grew up knowing that a bunch of white people
>would at least subconsciously think 'hey, I'm white...there's
>certain stuff I just expect to get/have over people who aren't
>white'. But now I look at it like lots of 'groups' do it too.
>And again, confident, brazen, and lurking around waiting to
>hop out of a bush to confront someone for not respecting their
>clique enough. Again, maybe its just me and I'm missing
>something as a dude who just shows up to shit trying to be
>decent to everyone and not just the people who think exactly
>like me or who are in the same categories as me.
>
>But hell, is this Texas-specific? Regional? Worse in some
>areas than others?

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...