Texas needs to be under much better management
Let Aggies handle it
Regarding “What went wrong with Texas' power failure and how to fix it,” (Feb. 16): Turn the management and operations over to Texas A&M University engineers.
The Aggies can fix it and run it better
Phil Turner, Frisco
Time to change our ways
Regarding “This is a Texas problem, not a clean energy problem,” (A13, Feb. 18): Did the red-bleeding state of Texas, land of oil, energy and independence, just experience a multiday energy blackout? One that could easily be traced to a major 100-year weather event? An event that now happens about once every three years in the form of hurricanes, blizzards or major flooding?
So if you are like me this week, you filled up your toilet bowl tank painfully slowly with faucet dribble, rainwater and snow residue to use the restroom in your own house because there was no water in Harris County. And if you are also like me, you are counting the minutes down until power shuts off again thanks to our cleverly crafted “controlled outages” that took us two days of complete power failure to figure out how to do.So wherever and whoever you are, blue or red, libertarian or socialist, you now desperately admit that climate change events cause major life upheaval and should be expected in our future. We are smarter than this and could design systems that survive it. Maybe you could also admit it is time to start trying to take some steps to mitigate these hastening climate change events as much as possible by changing our ways.
Marybeth Nored, Houston
The freezing weather and mass power grid failure left millions of Texans shivering in darkness. Share your experience with us in 200 words or less and we will publish the results. Sorry, no politics. What we would like to hear from you are your personal on-the-ground experiences and reflections. You can use our regular letters form, on houstonchronicle.com. Letter must be signed, with your home address and phone number for verification. (Only your name and hometown will be published.) The letter must be received by Feb. 22.
BIBLE VERSE
May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
Psalm 25:21