None of my business... But this conversation is interesting to me.
There is a certain normalcy bias at play here... Decades since the last big freeze, the appearance of normalcy tends to forget the past, and to some degree legitimately.
That is why multi-million dollar estates get built right on a hurricane coast. Somewhere in the back of your mind, the chances of disaster become slim as the decades march by... Always forgetting the tendency, nay prediction, that the disaster will certainly come again.
YES, Abbott's government got caught with their pants down. And no doubt the reflexive finger pointing would come naturally, as that normalcy bias left them as comfortably numb as everyone else.
Finger pointing in this is no different than the finger pointing after a massive hurricane - It's just that all y'all are used to hurricanes and the disaster they bring - And so is your government.
More to the point, as
@thackney opined, Why aren't rough and ready Texans ready for it themselves? Be mad that the government was hapless in this, even as it was with the flooding. But in that case, it was largely your neighbors that picked up the slack, not the government.
What is to be mourned in this is the state of the Spirit of Texas - That rugged individualism that makes community help possible. The ability to stand on your own two feet and make yourself invulnerable, to the best as you can. Because those that are invulnerable are the ones that can help others, right there at the local level. THAT, my friends is what should be mourned and corrected.
Sure and the government has a role - To remove the strictures that prevent alt heat sources, and dissuade independence... to strengthen power distribution and sharing in the wake of this freeze.
Reverting back to that multi-million dollar estate built on a hurricane coast - It is normalcy that put it there. Maybe that is wrong, but it is predictable... It is not wrong to make the man well in the wake of disaster - be that by insurance or even public funds... but it is wrong to let him rebuild in the midst of making him well. Because that expense is doomed to be spent yet again. Literally it is doomed.
Likewise in this. But the thing that needs rebuilt, the thing that needs repair is that indomitable Texas Spirit and Faith... And what needs to be prevented and educated against is not the rebuilding of the multi-million dollar house - an example of (reliance on) government in this example - That is the thing that should not be allowed to be rebuilt again - leaving the citizens the wherewithal to stand for themselves. Inevitably.
