I don't think I'm overreacting or hand-wringing. Just noting that I hope a lot of people don't have the troubles they had then.
And it's 'notable' to me because while we do get below freezing a couple of nights every year here, we don't get down into the teens often....that is irregular. Thus I find myself hoping nothing similar occurs. We fared just fine last time. We never lost power and I don't think it would've been a big deal if we had, heating-wise. I have some in-laws in North Texas who didn't fare as well, so I hope nobody has a similar experience.
At any rate, it doesn't hurt to be prepared for oddball circumstances, no matter how unlikely you or I think they are. Texas can do better for itself by simply not subsidizing a bunch of green energy that produces relatively little power for the investment. Just allocating the current amount of money spent into more effective energy sources would've seen the state through that last storm. My handwringing comes from my belief that the idgits in Austin didn't learn anything from that experience.
