This is true, and playing the piggy in a stick house, our power outages happen as a result of downed local distribution lines. Since we moved to the more boujie side of things, our lines from the substation to home are all subterranean. We’ve had only a couple outages in 4yrs and they were back up within an hour. Not saying it can’t happen, just less likely.... but who knows, maybe our windmills will freeze??!?!
Thankfully our infrastructure is better equipped to handle cold events than Texas, and understandably so. So I don’t see what happened there occurring here. If it does, we’ll get the plumbing winterized quick, toss on some layers, and go hang at my parent’s place that can run off grid if needed.
To my understanding, Texas happened because their infrastructure was not able to function that far below freezing. The natural gas was there to use. It’s the power going down from low temps that crippled the ability to distribute it (pumping/switching stations), and to make use of it (furnaces etc).
We have two fireplaces in the house; gas on main level, wood burning in basement. Our issue is the ability to distribute the heat throughout the remainder of the house. A generator could keep the HVAC fan turning.
You seem to be more well versed in emergency planning, so if you have any “what abouts” I’m all ears.
