You cant. You can store natural gas in earth caverns. You can winterize plants and gas delivery. I mean come on. You just have to spend the money to do it.
-You can store natural gas in earth caverns.-
Where is this done? Does Texas have a lot of unused earth caverns?
The local (Champaign County, Illinois) underground natural gas storage facility (for heating Chicago) is in “porous” rock underneath an impervious rock dome - not near the earth’s surface. The gas is injected using wells under very high pressure. The wells are also used for gas retrieval. The “porous” rock looks like rock -it is difficult to imagine that it is porous. They use the stored gas only when the pipeline from Texas and now other sources cannot supply the demand.
A few years ago we had some excitement (explosion, fire, etc) when a near surface high pressure gas distribution line failed. If my memory serves me correctly, the post mortem determined the failure was due to an internal scratch in the failed pipe.