I was supposed to be there Monday. I am flying out Friday instead. My family, obviously, doesn't have power and water yet. The best estimates they have are a month for water and power may come back in the next few days. I26 north I40 west are impassible and may be that way for months. Friends businesses are gone. It is a mess. I plan on doing the only thing that non-emergency people should do in things like this: drive my family out of there as soon as I arrive. Fewer people = fewer problems. As to what got us here? Bad things happen to well prepared places (Japan in 2011?) but having lived in truly well prepared places, I gotta argue that US infrastructure and planning isn't great compared to a lot of other countries (definitely better than some though). Infrastructure always pays for itself in the long term but we have so much short term, selfish, anti-science thinking that it is scary.