> […] but it seems like every avenue of "you deserve it" is being explored on social media towards the people there. I don't know about "deserve", but if you d

> […] but it seems like every avenue of "you deserve it" is being explored on social media towards the people there. I don't know about "deserve", but if you don't want to get hit by lightning, don't go golfing during a thunderstorm. Texas had a similar storm in 2011, and there was a report about what should be done: ERCOT decided to ignore it. Meanwhile, some places that are not managed by ERCOT decided to pay attention: > El Paso is not apart of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a major grid operator that controls about 90% of the state’s electric load. El Paso Electric, which oversee's the electricity from Hatch to Van Horn, said the Borderland is apart of the Western International grid. […] > El Paso Electric said they always try to prepare for the future and after a winter storm in 2011, the utility company worked towards replacing and upgrading their equipment. Many generators now have antifreeze protection. * https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing-power-outages-like-the-rest-of-texas-and-heres-why/ https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing... Meanwhile, former Texas governor (and previous Secretary of Energy) Rick Perry: > "Rick Perry says Texans would rather be without power for days over more federal oversight" * https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-would-rather-be-without-power-for-days-than-have-more-fed-oversight https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-woul... H.L. Mencken once said: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. The people running the show now, and for the last few decades, in Texas is supposedly what 'the people' want (notwithstanding over suppression).