Quote Originally Posted by ray1970 View Post
I don?t think Texas has any snow plows. And why would they? I think overall the state averages about one inch per year. Obviously the panhandle and the western part of the state get more than the majority of the state.
Yet Arkansas does...in literally the exact same city that Texas didn't see a need for em. That city is in the east and not all that far north. Arkansas invested (and from the looks of it not just in a plow, but ice melt too) and fared better.

Debate on reasonable state expenditures aside, it shows how one state was able to handle it at least a little better, in a way other than just the energy failure.