The Texas Capitol grounds are covered in snow on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Austin, Texas. - JAY JANNER/Austin American-Statesman/TNS
Once again, Texans are suffering because of a failure of disaster planning and investment to prepare for the worst. First, it was the pandemic. Texas’ public health infrastructure has been shown for a year to be lacking, at both local and state levels. Leaders tried to craft a plan in 2015 to prepare for the inevitable, but it was stopped over political issues. This time, it’s an unprecedented — but, importantly, not unpredictable — stretch of cold weather and storms blanketing the entire state. Public and private sector leaders may try to say there’s no way they could have been prepared for t...
