Greg Abbott: ‘No words can fix’ devastation Texans went through last week. State will speak through actions The governor’s televised speech came hours after overseers of the state’s electricity grid heard a harrowing account of how the system avoided an even worse disaster. "For those of you still hurting, I want you to know that the state is using every resource to fix this problem," Gov. Greg Abbott said of Texans' suffering from power and water outages as a result of last week's bitter cold weather. In photo, residents of Villas Del Solamar Apartments who'd been without water for a week waited to fill buckets Monday at a fire hydrant on Park Lane in Dallas.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)