Same weather here in the Des Moines area just about. We have long, harsh winters not terribly different from Minneapolis. We use gas to heat everything. We have a bunch of those ugly windmills in Iowa, but somehow manage to never have these electricity problems. One problem Texas is having is that they use electricity for heat and not gas, and they use heat pumps instead of furnaces. Not meant for sustained cold temps, those heat pumps can't warm the building enough, and they don't shut off, so it's like if everyone in the state had their AC cranked at max all at the same time, 24 hours a day... plus their crappy reliance on wind and solar.