while the concept of a grand solar minimum will only be proven if it actually happens at this point, your comment makes the general point that we are indeed in a solar minimum...and during this period of activity Texas has historically shown the result of having an even similar to this...1989, around 2000 (I forget the exact year, but do clearly remember some asshole deciding it would be a grand idea to turn on his garden hose and wash down the street to create an ice slide for his kids...that of course resulted in the street being impassable until things thawed), 2011, and now in 2021

point being this is just another things the powers that be didn't take into account when shutting down natural gas well heads, not winterizing sufficiently, and not even making real plans for preparedness with a known huge storm bearing down on us with plenty of advance notice

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)