Texas winter storm exposed massive risks for disruption
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People wait to get propane tanks filled outside Dallas on February 16. Record cold temperatures, along with snow and ice, blanketed Texas and spurred a failure of the power grid. Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI | License Photo
The symptoms are unmistakable yet hidden in plain sight. The massive disruption of Texas and what turned out to be a highly vulnerable power grid to a super snow and ice storm last week should have been no surprise. Nor should the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive cyber intrusion of the Solar Winds software have been entirely unpredictable.