Nobody is irresponsible for this anymore that George Bush was responsible for the effects of Katrina.
Karma is a bitch but her sister, Mother Nature, just gets out of control sometimes.
Everything worked fine for 30 years since the last event and I lived in Tulsa when that one happened.
No big deal. Lost power for 3 days.
Gas heater and Hibachi turned it another camping experience.
I have lots of stories about Mother Nature exerting her will.
Mudslides in the the Santa Cruz Mountains, tornadoes, ice and red winds in Oklahoma.
Even snow and ice making it impossible to go North, South, East or West in Greenville/Wilmington, DE because there are hills, uphill, to go anywhere and the roads were impossible to travel. Whatever.
I would place some blame on obama and the renewable energy crap. EPA going against coal and subsidizing solar/wind which is highly variable as we now see.
In 2018 alone, ERCOTT shut down 5,000 MW of coal power.
*Somebody* is responsible for spending millions of dollars on Wind power in Texas.
Not only is Wind power terribly expensive, it freezes up in cold weather.
In one sense you are correct. No one can plan for all the possibilities in a natural disaster.
However the structural defects of the diesel in Katrina were a direct result of the follies of New Orleans politics.
The lack of availability of power in Texas is a direct result of unhooking from the national grid secondary to reliance on wind and solar power generation which is funded by crony capitalism laws that harm citizens.
ush was responsible for putting an incompetent idiot socialite crony in charge of FEMA. Never excuse Bush corruption incompetence and vengefulness as a result of which we have a demented fool in the WH
All you say is true BUT to put 92% of your electrical dependency on only renewable ( wind / solar ) is not smart. The powers that be did that to be “green” having a husband that has been in the power industry for 40 years- coal fired- coal is the most reliable for “supply” but then too when the river is flooded, they can’t unload coal. That’s why they always have a 30 day supply on the coal pile.
On the other hand, there is significant data pointing to the earth being in a solar minimum as sun spots numbers have hit a record low. If we had real science in this country that was able to advise freely without fear of cancellation, governments could be preparing their states to handle a period of colder winters.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/solar-minimum-is-coming
I walked around in ski pants the whole damn time