I must object, you are being too kind. This is not ignorance. This is deliberate lying. Just like they did in Nov.
The Tx power handling outfit (ERCOT), like the pack of dweebs we have out here in Ca, encouraged “renewable energy alternatives” since they were cheaper because every US citizen was subsidizing them. So, no baseline power plants. So, when the “REA” crap out like every engineer (and smart Politico) in Tx told them would happen, the lights go out.
As to a rare temp drop. Not so rare. Don’t buy that lie, either. In the ten years I lived in Tx a long time ago, there were at least two times a “Blue Northern” blew in and dumped snow on the Gulf coast — far more south than the stupid windmills so beloved by Green New Deal dweebs. It’s called a “BLueNorthern” cause its like a dam broke somewhere in the midwest and all the cold Canadian air floods south. It is not a rare event if there is a name for it.
Anyone who says a winter storm like this is rare in Texas hasnt spent time or grown up in Texas. Exactly right. Even back to the early statehood days, blue northers were famous. And I can’t count how many ice storms in Texas I’ve been through.
But these days, dishonesty is the coin of the realm.