It constitutes a state of emergency in Texas because Texas is not ready to deal with this. There is no infrastructure at all. People do not know how to deal wit

It constitutes a state of emergency in Texas because Texas is not ready to deal with this. There is no infrastructure at all. People do not know how to deal with cold. And most importantly, buildings are not designed to deal with it. So normally, this wouldn't be a huge deal. People would just pull out space heaters they use once in a decade. Unfortunately Texas does not have that ability either because the grid has not been maintained and expanded to meet the demand. And here is the crux of the problem.