Pretty much yeah. Texas R's refuse to integrate their grid with the fed one which would add new rules to theirs and mandate upgrades which could lead to less outages.

In this particular case there might be a bit of shitey business practice as well.

They don’t want to because they are trying to do everything they can to destabilize the US to appease their Chinese and Russian overlords.

Project 25 anyone?

Not all of us. But yes.

Bruh, I wish we had Lt. Dan...

TBH, we'd be in a much better place if literally any of them was replaced by a shrimp in an aquarium.

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.

Difference here is that parts of the state not hit by the hurricane or otherwise saw inclement weather to any degree are also suffering power outages well outside the zone that would be acceptable. Texas (utility) companies doesn't want to invest in redundancies to give their power grid more endurance than it needs for anything more than a mild breeze and some light rain. Over 2 million people lost power, despite many of those people not seeing any other effects of the hurricane. These things don't happen anywhere else along the gulf coast where hurricanes are just as common, and just as heavy hitting. Texas just doesn't regulate their grid anywhere near the Federal standard everywhere else, and it shows with every year for the last 4 years running regional storms taking the grid out in areas far removed from the zone affected by the storm.