Garcia: Without state grid reform, San Antonio could face a repeat of February's blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail Reed Williams doesn’t go in for sugarcoating. Neither does he have much appetite for scapegoating. In early March, Mayor Ron Nirenberg enlisted the former councilman to chair a committee to examine what went wrong during the February freeze that resulted in devastating blackouts and water outages. Over three months, the Committee on Emergency Preparedness met nearly every Friday to hash out these issues. The panel took more than 400 questions and comments from understandably concerned residents. This week, it released its findings in a 46-page report.