> that is not close to the severity of what happened over the course of this week. Right, but I wasn't claiming that 2011 was as bad as 2021, which would be an

> that is not close to the severity of what happened over the course of this week. Right, but I wasn't claiming that 2011 was as bad as 2021, which would be an obviously silly claim. I'm claiming that in 2011 the grid failed in a similar way to what's happening today, due to the cold, and that it was a failure of leadership to not learn from that and prepare (El Paso excepted). This is why I talked about why power failed in 2011, rather than talking about how long the outage in 2011 was or how cold it got. Meanwhile I am saying that this claim you made is in contradiction with the official report: > The major problems in 2011 were trees falling on power lines it wasn't core generation facilities failing. The FERC claims that 79% of the lost energy production in 2011 was caused by either power plants failing directly due to the cold (67%), or indirectly as fuel production and transport failed due to the cold (12%). Between your unsupported assertion about falling trees, and the report produced by experts who spent six months studying the failure, I'm going to trust the latter. Unless if you'd like to provide some evidence beyond happening to live in Texas in 2011.