After this hell of a week in Texas all the leaders want to point the blame at others. Our senators, the governor, the mayors, everyone, when all anyone really cares about is things getting fixed. For the most part, things did get fixed, although there are still ~160000 people without power now (there were 4+ million, including myself and most of my family in the area). We still have to boil water because the water treatment plants also lost power for several days (why aren't these "essential"?).
It was sad to hear about various "heating stations" being opened up throughout the area in convention centers and libraries by the cities, and guess what their hours were? 7am-7pm. Right, that'll help, closing by dark, when it got down to -2F, the coldest since 1899. At least when the Salvation Army set up their own stations theirs were open 24 hours, because they know what they're doing. Considering the scale of the problems it could've gone much worse, and now maybe they'll finally weather-proof the power generators throughout the area after apparently turning down the recommendation about 10 years ago. It only takes a "once in a generation" storm to really change the worst case scenario, and anyone involved in the previous decision should be ousted, but everyone in charge will try to deflect presumed blame by pointing their fingers first.
