it is pretty bad. No power whatsoever on Monday, power is come and go Tuesday, no anticipated time for when everything will be back to normal. most stores and restaurants closed, the few that are open have huge lines, grocery store shelves are empty. It also varies. some places are more affected than others. Some people have no service disruption, some people have had nothing since Monday, some people have gas, some don't. It's definitely far worse than the past few hurricanes that have hit Texas. The weather was bad on Monday, Tuesday not as cold, it's supposed to start getting warmer. The power loss is out of proportion to the weather situation. As some posts mentioned on poal, the major energy suppliers are trying to push out the competition by bankrupting the small retail providers that have to provide energy to consumers at contract rates. In the end, we won't have dozens of retailers to choose from, the major suppliers are forming a cartel to fix the price of energy