Did I just sleep through a statewide emergency prep PR campaign last week that advised Texans to gas up, stock up ahead of this storm. Oh, that's right, there wasn't one. But #ifthiswereahurricane, we'd have flashing TxDOT signs, alerts, because Texas does *do* that.
https://twitter.com/mattlargey/status/1362500278457667590
Also trying to understand a grid that pays its executives north of $200K, and its CEO $800K-plus why possible scenarios weren't relayed to utilities, say last weekend. Weather was predicted accurately. 
It's not like the state of Texas doesn't have some of the best forecasting going on. You can't be in the oil and gas industry without forecasters on staff. Hell, we got rockets going off here. So weather, kind of important to track.
And it's not as if Texas didn't learn from the double-whammy of Katrina/Rita in 2005 to *drastically* overhaul its emergency prep for hurricanes. The state created retail and gas teams who would coordinate and flood a zone with supplies when a storm is like 300 miles offshore...
Then, as the hurricane comes closer, the retail/gas teams move back along evacuation routes. The result, not a lot of struggle for supplies say during Hurricane Ike/Harvey that we saw pre Katrina. After Rita hit in '05, Houston was out of gas completely for 8 days, I kid you not.
So Texas said then: never again and actually did reform the evacuation/supply system. And here's the thing. It *worked.* So can someone tell me why those teams were not contacted for an unprecedented event that was predicted?
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