.... Actually most of Texas' house-heating power comes from natural gas- and because they refused to weatherize. Upgrading costs $$ and the companies were not "required" to weatherize, and are not under federal regulations in Texas - it was just a 'friendly suggestion' they could ignore without consequence, even after the last 2 similar, though smaller, winter weather events, so everything froze. Texas windmills, like their other fossil fuel and nuclear power sources, were also not weatherized and so (as around 10% of their total power) yes, they froze. Consider that windmills are used in the Arctic- though of course those are properly equipped for cold weather.
And now they've got a water and in some cases sewage crisis as a secondary issue to the power failure- all kinds of pipes breaking and flooding houses as things start to defrost.
7 full days into no power here- thankfully the propane truck got here to refill us before we ran out. Day 8 here we go.
