It's definitely impressive. However, natural gas outages do happen. For example Winter Storm Uri in Texas led to gas outages.
Sadly, the outages and possible the loss of life connected to it could have been prevented if the gas companies hadn't fought back against stricter weatherization rules[^0].
> they made recommendations to the Railroad Commission to implement weatherization rules on the natural gas supply chain because there had been water coming up from the formations — it's called produced water, it's naturally occurring — and it was freezing at the top of the wellheads and restricting gas flow both at the wellheads and in pipelines.
And yes, the Railroad Commission is not in charge of trains, but oil and gas in Texas.
Sadly, the outages and possible the loss of life connected to it could have been prevented if the gas companies hadn't fought back against stricter weatherization rules[^0].
> they made recommendations to the Railroad Commission to implement weatherization rules on the natural gas supply chain because there had been water coming up from the formations — it's called produced water, it's naturally occurring — and it was freezing at the top of the wellheads and restricting gas flow both at the wellheads and in pipelines.
And yes, the Railroad Commission is not in charge of trains, but oil and gas in Texas.
[^0]: https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-the-texas-railro...