Houston storm
I was hoping someone on your team would be able to suggest someone look into Houston Texas with the 45 minute thunderstorm that blew through last week yet left much of our city crippled. I was under the assumption that We were fortified to withstand pretty severe hurricanes but my kids have been out of school for a week and will be returning to a different school due to damage their school suffered - there are a lot of people still without power but my biggest concern is the large communication line towers just crumbled like a house of cards. Yes we had strong winds and a couple tornado touch downs but the smallest cat 1 hurricane would have had same wind speeds but lasting several hours at least. This was a 45 minute storm. I have no faith in our infrastructure now and I know centerpoint energy does not do any work in lines unless it needs to be fixed. We found out during a freeze that power companies had invested zero money into preparedness. We pay the highest prices in the state for electricity- our water billing system has been extremely frustrating for several years with many people receiving huge water bills but impossible to ever use amounts billed for. We pay highest in Texas for water as well. I’m just afraid a hurricane will come through and we will learn that no one has put a dime into making sure our infrastructure is going to hold up. If a 45 min storm creates this much disruption- a hurricane would turn houston into a ghost town by comparison. We have seen widespread corruption throughout our city’s departments and I fear it is only the tip of the iceberg. Thanks for any help you provide or just listening. Dan Hidge
Data Breach
I don't know about you all, but I seem to be receiving frequent notifications from companies telling me that they had a data breach and that I needed to monitor my credit reports and sign up for credit monitoring due to their failure. I've gotten hit by Equifax, Target, AT&T, and even Little Caeser's just to name a few - what do you think needs to be done to hold companies accountable for these breaches? Most offer some period of free credit monitoring and then you have to pay after that which doesn't seem right, especially in the case of Equifax who stands to profit from their own negligence.
Substances and Society
Have you ever reached out to Michael Pollan? Saagar likes to talk smack on cannabis while caffeine and alcohol are the substances that dominate our, and most of the world's, societies. To quote RZA, caffeine causes serious delirium, is a delirious world what Saagar really wants?