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.