What exactly do you believe the Utilities could have done to prevent this? Are the utilities owned by the State? How does the Gov prevent demand spikes such as this one caused by a weather related phenomena?
Is Abbot popular in the State? If he is any unhappiness with him will be short lived and when the lights come back on it will be forgotten within a couple of weeks.
Don't buy into the liberal crap that windmills freezing caused this problem. They don't winterize plants down here as they do in the north preparing mainly for the brutal summers. They are not allowed to charge the consumer for winterizing either. This will be an opportunity to raise rates for the next event that may not happen for 30 years.
I really don’t think this will be forgotten soon. Nextdoor.com and my police scanner are full of posts of floods in the houses and frozen pools. This is going to end up being a pretty major deal. It’s the first time I remember power going out for more than a few hours. Some are going 60+ without. 40 degrees in a lot of houses now. Some places aren’t getting hit at all, others down for days.. That’s going to piss a lot off real bad.
get off the wind and solar..
The grid didn’t fail the generation did.