I live in Texas but very far West tip of it and we're treated like the step child to the State. Anyway our power grid is not connected to the rest of Texas, we have our own. Still it was sad that people died and people were freezing in their homes. Ted Cruz took his family and fled to Cancun, Mexico for a warm vacation while his people died and were freezing, what a great state with it's great politicians!

I adopted my current dog through Petfinder, she came from a Huge shelter in Texas with over 300 dogs, several dozen horses, and assorted goats, potbellied pigs, etc.
I was in the process of applying for a second dog from there, but that winter the power outage caused their water supply to become non-existent and the threat of death by dehydration/thirst was so horrible they were forced to put everything down and use bulldozers to bury them all.
All the volunteers walked away and never returned, and I can understand that.

I recall that time and in the end Texas did nothing to fix the problem. It got so bad that they turned off power in certain areas for a while and that only made things worse. Here in Missouri our electric co-op said it could even affect us as well.