"When Texas lawmakers met last month to begin sifting through the wreckage of the state’s energy grid, many expected to hear tales of poorly insulated power plants rendered inoperable by the latest winter storm.
Instead, energy executives raised an even more confounding problem: dozens of natural gas facilities had not filled out a three-page application for outage exemptions before the storm, meaning their facilities lost power at a moment when their fuel was needed most to feed struggling power plants."
This on its own doesn't excuse the multitude of other ways that power generators in Texas failed to prepare (lack of weatherizing, lack of backup power supplies, etc.) but this is just another part of the big picture.
Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.
If you were managing the conversion of an entire elementary and junior high school to remote learning on the fly in the midst of a pandemic while you and your spouse had said pandemic while overseeing the mental health of your children while also dealing with parents who had Covid at the same time you might have seen your stress level tick up but I’m glad you live such a chill and unencumbered lifestyle.
