I guess Rudy could have gone off to Florida right after 9/11, but he didn’t.
This isn’t hard, Ted, your wife is rich, you can afford to cancel a vacation and take the financial hit. As another said here, send the wife and kids there, but if you want to be a PUBLIC PERSON than grow up a bit and be one, even if that means Cancun has to wait an extra week or so. Otherwise, just be another lobbyist, just like the ones who created this power mess in Texas.
Comparing a mayor who actually can directs and authorizes a response to a city's disaster to a US Senator who can do really NOTHING about a State's power issue, does not seem like a show of brilliance.
Get some therapy.