As you head north, lots of things are done differently. Water service lives to your house are roughly 12” deep in Texas. Up north, they are 3’. Rafters on a house in Texas are 2x6, some of the older houses are 2x4 with bracing. Up north they are 2x10. So being unprepared for a freak storm isn’t something to blame states for. We prepare for hurricanes and they still destroy our towns.
Ain’t it funny how aoc thinks we should convert to green power while most people in the frigid north heat their homes with heating oil...... shipped up there from Beaumont and Port Arthur?