Why Texas' mass power outages continue to happen

[duncang]

3. Going to check later.

After the storm I followed the transmission lines out in our neighborhood. I’m a retired electrician. I saw a tree which almost covered the transformer and wrapped around the drop to some houses. I did report it to city hall in person.

A day after we got power back a high voltage line dropped because it arced to a tree. Luckily they were still working in our area and had it fixed in a few hours. They did trim back that tree.