O'Doyle definitely rules Texas, hahahhah.

Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. The forecast has already become less severe, and it doesn't look like the cold will be as widespread and sustained as last year. We probably won't even have rolling blackouts! What a funny thing to say, in the wealthiest country ever.

Actually, in the event of a total grid failure, my plan is to head to El Paso. What gives me the edge are the two spare five gallon gas tanks I've just purchased (gas pumps require electricity to operate), and the fact that probably almost no one else knows that El Paso isn't on the Texas grid (and there'll be no way of finding that out in the event of total grid failure, either). If I'm wrong, the penalty is... I have to refill the car's gas tank with the spare tanks in my garage in a few weeks.

Sad thing is that if absolutely nothing bad happens this winter, I fully expect no winterization of the grid to ever occur. The ~$100 billion in damages last year wasn't enough. Merely a speedbump. The O'Doyle Texas family van simply must find the largest sheer cliff face in existence to drive itself off of.