I agree... Why spend all that money in preparation for extreme weather that is highly unlikely to ever happen in that local...until it does. Now you go through the blame-game and legal liability of who is responsible for the home damage that "controlled" electrical blackouts have caused.
Your information on electrical heating for Texas homes makes sense for "normal" winter weather and I was unaware how prevalent that heating source is used down there. No one could have predicted how extreme the cold would become or the snow and ice events of multiple storms would set up over Texas and the South and Mid-Atlantic states like they have, nor the time duration of such extreme weather you and many others have had to endure.
Like I said, it will be long road to recovery with some very big economic impacts on all of the US and we are just in that initial awareness phase. The evaluation to assess the damages and implementation phases on how to go about fixing everything and assigning priorities to them, I think, is greatly under-estimated by both the local, state, and federal government and the people who have been directly affected by this extreme and widespread winter weather disaster.
My biggest concern is the energy from natural gas and petroleum that Texas sells to the rest of this nation that we rely on. Today, February 18th, 2021,the Texas governor`s mandate to not sell these products outside of Texas in the short-term to aid in his state`s recovery, while laudable, will have a ripple effect on this nation`s economy and may backfire on such thinking. If my state does not have the needed Texas-produced energy to produce and manufacture home-building products needed for Texans to fix their homes, then we are all in world of hurt and no one benefits. Let us hope that common sense and fair play will will not become federal government edicts and intervention of who-gets-what-when and tests the term "united" of this great nation`s name-sake and the people who comprise and define this nation.
