As I write this, there’s two feet of snow on the ground here in suburban Chicago, with potentially more on the way. We’re coming off a stretch of about two-and-a-half weeks where the temperature rarely broke double digits, and most nights it dropped well below zero even before the wind chill. We haven’t lost power.
Meanwhile, in Texas, millions of customers across the state are without power as the state is being slammed with winter storms, and it’s turning into a deadly situation.