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My employer has canceled family vacations for much less.

One time they ordered a guy to leave his honeymoon early because of a major outage.

I have had plans blown up at the last minute by every job I have EVER worked. From farm kid to fry guy at Hardees to plant management. When the emergency happens, you don’t blow it off.

So no, you DON’T go to Cancun if your electorate is starving, freezing, and pooping into plastic bags. You work the problem.

Obviously this is bad optics, but my disagreement is that why are we looking to Senator’s to “fix” this? It seems to me that the utilities, the state utility board, and Governor are all far more responsible and better positioned to work the problem than a Senator.

I am not being snarky when I say this, but one of the problems we have when anything happens in our nation now is that we somehow expect a solution from DC. The only “solution” we ever seem to get from DC is that they spend more money from every American to fix a local or a state problem created by local and state officials (or private utilities in this case). He is one of 100 senators and he cannot really do anything without the consent and assistance of congress.

It’s a storm. This falls on the utility and the state government. They were all very proud of their wind turbines and “green energy”. Perhaps they should have used some of their customers money to harden their system against a very rare but rather predictable weather event instead of giving big bonuses to executives for more green energy?

Just a thought. I don’t feel strongly about this one way or another and given that it is Texas (a direct competitor to the progressive agenda) I do not expect fair media coverage about it either.

I don’t contest your point about “bad optics”. Perhaps my indifference or disgust is more with how our nation has been conditioned to expect a solution to every problem from the beltway. There are many people far more responsible for this between those without power and a US Senator in my humble opinion.