Unless things change politically, that 10k heat fatality event will be in Texas and it will happen in multiple cities simultaneously. I really hope I’m wrong.

But surely after the deep freeze they fixed ohhhh never mind.

The power grid being what it is, plus politics, plus power hungry data centers? I forget the specific terms but I vaguely remember learning enough about it over the last winter that it seemed ripe for collapse.

Honestly I worry about the dry south AND Texas so so much. I'm in northern CA and my life is very different than 15 years ago, but dramatically different than when I was a kid. We are effed, but they are moreso and have no one who has their back. No good very bad future. Ugh.

Given the shitshow during the freeze event a few years back... yeah I believe it.

One of the big issues with Texas being their own grid is that they can't get support from out of state generation for failure events. If a hurricane smashes 15% of their generation offline during a high humidity heat wave, we're going to see bodies in the streets.