Power Crisis Challenged But Didn’t Quash “Texit” Idea

[Elderberry]

Spectrum News1 by Sabra Ayres 3/4/2021

Last month, the Lone Star State’s go-it-alone bravado was challenged when the state’s independent power grid failed during an unusually cold winter storm, leaving millions without power, heat, and water. More than 70 deaths have been linked to the storm, and tens of thousands of Texans are still without running water, three weeks after the snow melted.

One would think Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be enough of a humbling to quash any notion of Texas’ ability to break off from the United States, a call that has now become a nearly annual event.

Instead, as Texans living in houses ill-equipped for temperatures in the low teens were burning bedframes to keep warm, former Gov. Rick Perry insisted Texans were doing just fine with their independent grid.
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What You Need To Know

•   The independent power grid’s failure was seen by some as a trial run for the Lone Star State’s independence movement

•   Supporters of a “Texit” say the need to examine the feasibility of independence is still necessary

•   A bill in the Texas House proposes a referendum for Texas voters to decide if the state should go it alone
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“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry was quoted as saying in a blog posted on the website of Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader.

Meanwhile, a bill filled in the Texas Legislature this session proposes a referendum on whether Texas should consider separating. The bill filed by Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican from Fredericksburg, is the most significant bill on secession since the Civil War. The Republican Party of Texas has thrown its support behind the bill, saying Texans should have the right to vote on the issue of a “Texit.”

“Now is exactly the right time to consider this bill,” Biedermann said in an interview a week after the winter storm started. The East Texas lawmaker’s home outside of Fredericksburg had been without power for six days.

More: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/news/2021/03/03/power-crisis-challenged-but-didn-t-quash--texit--idea

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The author has this exactly backwards.

Problems like the freeze within the state are much less likely to be solved from without rather than from within.

Who in their right mind believes that if the feds controlled our grid and Texas experienced problems like we did that bureaucrats in DC are the best solution to overcome them?

Those responsible for the debacle are state level players and they are being held accountable as we speak by being dressed down before the legislature or leaving office.

Would we achieve results like that by firing DC bureaucrats?

[thackney]

The grids on both sides of us were having problems and declared emergencies at the same time.  They had no power to spare themselves from effects of the same storm.  Greater interconnections would NOT have solved this problem.