You also missed the point. This has all happened before to lesser degrees, and there are published reports of recommendations on how to not have it happen again. Those reports were summarily ignored, thus we have people dying of exposure inside their own homes today.

Stop making excuses for the abject failure of state government to fix known problems that end up killing people.

They SHOULD expect cold temperature in Texas. This is not the first time this has happened. Also there were several days warning that a major cold front was showing up and it seemed like no one was doing anything.

I'm in California, and we usually don't have weather like that outside of the higher elevations and the northern counties. And yet, when it gets down to merely freezing, not even sub-zero, many cities will set up warming centers for the elderly or disadvantaged even before the worst hits. Now witness the small town mayor in Texas who went the opposite route and had a long public rant about lazy freeloaders who wanted the city to help them out.

Texas average temp is 61, and yet we as Americans are able to keep producing electricity in cities of Alaska where the average is single digits during the winter, and even lower during bad weather there. The technology and equipment exists, it just wasn't used here in this case. They cut corners to save costs. It costs lives, but they do not care.

The cold, while destructive, is far more manageable as compared to tornadoes and hurricanes. The conditions on the ground here in Texas are only abnormal for the region. They are not out of the realm for the ordinary for the types of electric generation or the modes of transmission employed here. I don't think you really grasp the situation.

Aren't you several times more likely to die in a car crash?

What if you didn't have the slightest clue you were talking about?

I always consider when a theory requires you to create extra dimensions to explain the math then perhaps it is time to question the theory rather than invent things that can't be tested for as existing.

Glass bottles weigh a lot more than plastic ones, which will increase transportation costs and associated pollution

We all know how an army of thoughtless drones acts. Diversity, risk taking and innovation are the enemy. Are you within the margin of error of the tallest bar on the chart? You're in.

Trying to understand the correlation between your response and my post.

Nevertheless, I was totally against Bush's war... The entire premise was insane. Iraq had nothing to do with 911 even though that was the opinion of a good number of Americans who supported the war. Bush did a real good job of making that association without being explicit. And I listened to Gen Powell's "evidence" to the UN security council where he imagined a wink wink in an intercepted radio communication between Iraqi military personnel.

I agree, but what if I wore two lucky rabbit's feet? Surely that would do it.