The 2021 Texas Freeze -- a replay of 2007 Jetblue Valentine's day crisis magnified by 10,000 times.
what happened: Texas had a few inches of snow on 2/14-15. Power producer not prepared, and gas well froze in the sub-10F weather. Texas lost 30% of its electricity production.
what happened: Texas had a few inches of snow on 2/14-15. Power producer not prepared, and gas well froze in the sub-10F weather. Texas lost 30% of its electricity production.
More than 4 million customers (1 customer = 1 house) lost power: most had power outage of more than 48 hrs. some could be out of power for another 2 days in this freezing weather.
https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1362152952392278017?s=20
So what did Texas government/grid/utilities do? They pulled a jetblue: rather than admitting that things won't improve until the gas wells thaw (when temperature goes into 40s), they keep saying they are doing their best for recovery, giving people false hope.
Exactly the same playbook Jetblue used at JFK airport on 2/14/2007, when they tried to wing it on a blizzard (while Delta and others all proactively cancelled flights). People were stranded on planes for 7-8 hrs without water/toilet on the tarmac of JFK, for a tiny chance...
of potentially being able to take off to Tampa and FLL.
Had they been honest with themselves and customers, no one would have to suffer that 8 hr ordeal, in which those flights ended up being cancelled anyway.
Had they been honest with themselves and customers, no one would have to suffer that 8 hr ordeal, in which those flights ended up being cancelled anyway.
Had people been told the truth on Monday about how long the situation could have dragged out, people in Houston could have seek shelter in Louisiana and people in northern suburb of Dallas could seek shelter in Oklahoma without risking being frozen. 
In 2007, David Neeleman lost his job as Jetblue CEO because of that crisis. This time, I hope politicians would be held accountable for turning Texas into Venezuela .
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