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It's the dunk tank.
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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.