Correct. I read about this yesterday.
So in the 1980s We had a similar freeze like this one. Following that there was a postmortem analysis done and basically they said exactly that. The grid needed to be winterized and updated to handle cold even if it was rare and that it might happen more often due to climate change.
These were recommendations and no laws were changed.
In 2011 we had pretty good cold snap here. Not on this scale but there were power problems. most of the same stations that failed in 2011 were ones that failed in 1989.
Here we are again.
30 years we've known about this and will not invest because it only happens every so often. But now areas of the state are rapidly gaining dense populations that weren't there before. Even 10-15 years ago.
With that growth the cost of this is spread out over a lot more people and the penalties for not doing it hit a lot more people.
Beyond that of course we all pay for this anyways through home insurance and the human cost and the penalties against the homeowners themselves that get hurt from frozen pipes and floods.
