Quote Originally Posted by TheTravellers View Post
Why did he even have to do this? Why wasn't the infrastructure protected against this kind of situation? Did his company just decide to take the risk and hope a really deep freeze never happened, but if it did, he was assured of making ridiculous amounts of money?

I've spent days in a row working and neither me nor my company made millions during that period, we just kept the company going, it was part of our job. No, it wasn't outside in subzero weather, but companies should have the foresight so that people *don't* have to work outside in subzero weather for days.
If you want to sit there and play the blame game, why don't you point your finger at the government/state of Texas for not requiring the billions spent on wind turbines to be winterized? All of the wind turbines froze solid, several ended up breaking, and the solar panels were covered by snow.

Why aren't the solar and wind companies not liable for being unable to provide the energy it was depended on to produce?