America moment: being forced to rely on a burger company’s app to find out where power outages are 
Oh, and of course we can not forget that said burger company is using this massive natural disaster/tragedy as an opportunity to do Brand Twitter™ PR and marketing in the replies to the original tweet!
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.
Oh my god
late ed: For reference, Texas has 254 counties.
This would be grounds for a military coup in a more civilized country.
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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…
One day, burger technology will become so advanced that it starts to replace existing technology companies as the predominant driver of innovation.
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.
Don’t worry comrade, someday Canadian utilities & burger places will be just as good as ours
[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
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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