It happens in California all the time but you only mention it happening in Texas. Why is that? If you were unaware that it happens in California, why is that?
Perhaps because they are South African? As another South African I have heard of blackouts in Texas (and your Ted Cruz going on holiday) but I haven't heard about anything in California (other than the Enron related power shortages).
The "wrong" party is in power in Texas, so problems there are far more widely reported.
This is not relevant to their post. Why is that?
I mean, it happened in 2019 with the big wildfires, and it happened when Gray Davis was governor in like... 2003? It's not really a regular thing.
Because it's been in the news I consume, I guess. I saw a diagram like this [1] somewhere, perhaps a John Oliver video. It seems Texas is on their own grid and I think wherever I learned that mentioned that Texas has not been maintaining/upgrading the grid to the degree that they should.