• EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Jesus, you can't look up where power outages are occurring? In BC, our power company is a SOE and there's a website you can look at that shows every power outage in the province. Areas with outages are overlaid on Google maps, which means you can see down to individual streets where outages are occurring, and each outage has information appended to it, like the cause of the outage, time since outage, whether teams are actively repairing it, etc.

    And in Burgerland, you get the information from burger company.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Oh my god

      There are almost 300 registered energy providers in Texas. Each provider has rates and plans that change daily.

      late ed: For reference, Texas has 254 counties.

    • Jew [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I can in my state, but we only have like 3 power utility companies. My guess is that you can't see a map of Houston because there are dozens of energy providers due to the lack of regulation. Any map would be incomplete and not as good as the Whataburger app...

      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        One day, burger technology will become so advanced that it starts to replace existing technology companies as the predominant driver of innovation.

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      And in Burgerland, you get the information from burger company.

      Texas is just especially stupid about it.

      I'm in Ohio, which is trying to become the Florida of the Midwest, and my neighborhood is part of an electrical co-op. They have a great website with real-time tracking of outages and a text message service for outage reporting and updates.

      It's not all co-ops here. AEP does electrical service a lot of the nearby towns, and from what I've heard, outage reporting and tracking is more effort and doesn't update in real-time. But at least they do have a map and an online outage submission form, so that's something.

      I feel very badly for our comrades in places like Texas. Ohio sucks badly enough, but jfc, Texas really does it up.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Jesus, you can't look up where power outages are occurring?

      [Chorus]
      You don't tug on Superman's cape
      You don't spit into the wind
      You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
      And you don't mess 'round with Texas

      Song

    • Runcible [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Don't worry comrade, someday Canadian utilities & burger places will be just as good as ours