In mid-February, Texas had been most exposed to the efforts a severe snow, leading to the whole city using their essential power. Although the operators had been warned about the harsh challenge of storm and the consequences of global warming, no one seemed to have their eyes be trained on this issue. After the unprecedented winter storm, the equipment of power plants remained frozen and natural gas wells went worse. What’s worse, all these led to the water shortage. In order to keep their life going, people in Houston were poisonous of carbon monoxide with their own generators on.
The fundamental explanation to this issue is that people seldom take this threat into consideration as they ignore the warning of the storm from the forecasts. In this perspective, Texas never had their plans to solidify their electricity infrastructure. Nowadays, global warming are in their way to our lives, consider the high temperatures made man plants offline in California last summer and people turned a blind eye to climate because of the worldwide turmoil.
Through this catastrophe, people should raise their awareness of the climate emergency and treat problems holistically. The extreme climate condition is approaching our life step by step and it is the new pattern differing from the conventional ones. If we continue to act the same way, we may end up with the consequences produced by ourselves. From now on, the time for us to head on the challenges is already here and take effective measures by hardening infrastructure and combing the grid into a system.
