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New polling shows Democratic candidates dominating in key Harris County races - KHOU 11 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 19 OP
I wonder duncang Oct 19 #1
Probably not at all. TwilightZone Oct 19 #2
Will Harris have a blowout in Harris county, 🤔 ColinC Oct 19 #3

duncang

(3,591 posts)
1. I wonder
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 02:17 AM
Oct 19

How much the electric reliability will affect state wide? Will other areas affected by it remember the failures we’ve had?

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)
2. Probably not at all.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 06:34 AM
Oct 19

I doubt that it's on many voters' minds at all in 2024. Voter memories are short. It's been 3.5 years and there have been few weather-related outages of any significant scope since in TX and nothing even in the ballpark of the 2021 storm.

What many don't understand is that event was literally a perfect storm, record snow, record low temperatures for days, record size and scope, etc. It was essentially a 500-year event, though climate change may make them more frequent.

It would take an event of similar scale to generate similar issues, even with the GOP blocking measures to improve the grid. Chances of a similar event are extremely low, which is what they're banking on.

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