blackbriar wrote: ↑Jul 10th, '24, 21:45
I am okay. We still don't have power after losing it around 6:30am Monday. My brother got power back so I'm hanging out at his place for now. It's literally way too hot not to have A/C! Honestly, the storm wasn't even that bad? I mean, Houston needs to get it together if the infrastructure was devastated this bad from a Cat 1. I think there are more power outages from Beryl than the significantly more powerful Ike a few decades ago or whenever it was. And our energy provider had barely even started mobilizing. We won't have power tomorrow either.
Thank you VERY much for letting us know.
Infrastructure is so expensive to upgrade and maintain, no-one wants to reassign the taxes to cover it, so it's been getting worse all over, really. Takes a major catastrophe to change that, because then there's suddenly all this attention and focus on it, and there's aid to cover the costs and it has to get replaced anyhow, so it gets replaced up to the current standards at least.
Which honestly is usually more expensive than maintaining it properly to begin with, but the cost is spread out differently and there's less public resistance to it.
Weird People Emotions beat out pragmatic logic once again.
We humans are so strange sometimes.
My own community is much the same.
We can see it happening, but every time anyone tries to practically address matters, everyone balks at the price tag and it's back to the slow slide towards obsolescence once again.
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