Living in Austin, where we are experiencing our 8th straight day with below freezing temps, I've never appreciated this community more for the diversion from real life. I have a burst pipe already (with the subsequent cleanup of the flooding of two rooms and regular fill up of toilets with water from a cooler), unplowed and unsafe streets limiting driving, gathering firewood in the woods daily, and kids home from school. I'm thankful for neighbors both real (who helped me shut off the master water valve and provide the coolers of water) and virtual. I'm sure some of my Texas brethren have lost power; we haven't had to live through that this week thankfully (but that's why I continue to gather firewood).
It was always amusing when I lived up north and a southern state got freezing temperatures which northerners are used to living through, but now I know that this town is not equipped for this kind of weather (multiple days of single digit temps). The walls are poorly insulated, the snowplows do not exist, and no one thinks to winterize their homes.
Some people without power are living in houses where the indoor temperature is in the 30s. Keep Texans in your prayers.