Exactly. Ted was and is still right in ridiculing California for their power outage problems. Because what happens in California is and was deliberate and planned.
Texas may not have another winter catastrophe like this for another hundred years. But I have no doubt that officials will make sure this type of emergency never leaves millions of people without power ever again.
People don't understand that there is a money trade off when it comes to utilities. In a draught, which may not happen often, people need to reduce water use as the system capacity is balanced with water prices for the 99.9% of the time. But when that .1% time comes, we need to have a back up plan that doesn't raise prices considerably. In other words, Texas should have contracts with other states or other systems that can fill in the .1% of the time it freezes there for a few days.