Their population doubled in size over the last quarter century. Maybe that has something to do with it.

So half their infrastructure is less than 25 years old and it still wasn't built up to snuff?

True, but it doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers: https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce...

That said, I’d expect to be able to see this effect on the outage maps and I don’t, at least from an eyeball perspective.

Anecdotally, plenty of areas with buried lines have outages still.

It doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers: https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce...

That said, I’d expect to be able to see this effect on the outage maps and I don’t.

So what you're saying is they scaled too fast?