The extreme cold storm in the United States triggered the "Texas Crisis". What inconveniences have people encountered in their lives?

A cold wave that almost swept the whole country broke out in the United States, which led to a great crisis in Texas, including natural gas supply, heating, power supply, water supply and other issues, and the problems could not be solved in a short time. Take the power problem as an example. The local power company said it could be repaired within 60 days.

Power failure is the most terrible thing. More than half of the areas are without power, and nearly 3 million people are in a state of power failure. Even where there is no power outage, electricity prices have soared rapidly. Now, it is said that the electricity price has risen to 70 yuan for one year, and ordinary people simply can't afford it, because the price has almost skyrocketed 100 times. Originally, your monthly electricity bill was 100 yuan, and now you have to pay 65500 yuan. Only the rich areas in the central business district can afford it.

The failure of heating means that natural gas heating is becoming a problem gradually, because the price of natural gas is also rising rapidly, and it is said that there are corresponding working laws to restrict this. In the northern part of the United States, the price is relatively low, but futures trading is restricted because Texas is located in the southern part of the United States and it is not so easy to trade. Their state government is relatively independent and belongs to that kind of local autonomy model. You can't do this without the permission of the local state government.

Now there is a new problem, that is, when water is cut off, many people are in a state of water cut off. Because there is no electricity, how can we ensure that water can be delivered to everyone's home normally? Especially those high-rise buildings that don't have enough electricity to drive, water will be cut off soon. Now many residents are in a primitive state of heating, that is, burning firewood at home. Although it is the most primitive, it is the most useful, because the electricity bill can't be paid at all, and 70 yuan is terrible to think about, not to mention the snowstorm, which has caused the local temperature to drop rapidly and the heating demand to rise. In summer, it may be better without such low temperature weather, but it happens that electricity consumption is too high in low temperature weather.

So many inconveniences in life did not change quickly, because according to the local power company, the news of the power system can be completed within 60 days, because more than 70% of their power systems have a service life of more than 25 years, and more than 60% have a service life of more than 30 years, because their power companies are all private companies, all for making money. Is it free to update the power equipment? If you can use it, you can handle it naturally. There is something wrong with the weather in the face of such a big snowstorm now.