Yep and not just homes, power grid, roads ... everything. People joke that the south of England "shuts down" when there's snow, and while there are services that suffer it's never quite like how badly Texas collapsed during their big storm.

When there are extreme weather events that you've not planned, designed and built your infrastructure for, you're basically at the mercy of mother nature. In the UK's case that's extremely hot weather, in Texas' case that was extreme cold