you're falling the the MSM distractions... skipping the conspiracy theory of this was planned to make (((some people))) rich, in a nutshell it can be brought down to this: February is always a wild card in Texas, and those in power made the decision to start shutdowns and such before this month ended, and additionally they had a good amount of warning this historic weather event was coming and from what it seems ignored that fact as opposed to spending the funds to prevent much of the current situation. further more, changing from gas powered heaters for the natural gas line to electric was retarded. water supply situations are pretty much unavoidable in this situation as frozen/ruptured pipes are basically unavoidable without ripping out most of the infrastructure in the state and redoing it...gasoline and food supplies are also unavoidable other than having stocked up on supplies beforehand (impossible to bring in more supplies when the trucks can't get on the road)