TEXAS — Last month, the Lone Star State’s go-it-alone bravado was challenged when the state’s independent power grid failed during an unusually cold winter storm, leaving millions without power, heat, and water. More than 70 deaths have been linked to the storm, and tens of thousands of Texans are still without running water, three weeks after the snow melted.
One would think Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be enough of a humbling to quash any notion of Texas’ ability to break off from the United States, a call that has now become a nearly annual event.
Instead, as Texans living in houses ill-equipped for temperatures in the low teens were burning bedframes to keep warm, former Gov. Rick Perry insisted Texans were doing just fine with their independent grid.
