so that's one comparable. Surely there are other First World cities that have storms?

Sprawling cities with millions of people that experience Gulf hurricanes?

Miami, which also experiences massive power outages when they're hit with even category 1 hurricanes.

> The rains caused flooding, and the combination of rains and winds downed trees and power lines, leaving 1.45 million people without power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

Look to Asia, all the major coastal and island cities have far bigger storms than whatever Houston experiences, many times a year, and they pretty much all fare better than this.

Someone (maybe in Houston!) should compile a list of all those cities, the storms they've had, and the number of power outage days they suffered. Not a cherry-picked list of "good" cities; ALL of them.

That would be a lot of research, for sure.