The Great Polar Vortex of 2021 brought freezing and sub-freezing temperatures to most of the country. (And in fact the Vortex still exists; another winter storm will strike Thursday.) And as everyone is talking about, it hit Texas the hardest. As of this posting, fifteen people have died in Texas from the weather. They either froze to death or poisoned themselves with carbon monoxide through desperate measures to heat their homes. Millions of people still lack power, running water, or both. Some on the political left have replied with a sick and sick-making display of schadenfreude. People on both sides of the Great Renewables Debate have weighed in, each with a distorted version of the facts. The facts demand better planning on the part of the Texas grid operator and all power generators. This holds especially as Texas considers whether to secede from the Union.