Is it? Again, I was without power and water (not by choice) for > 72hrs and I didn't freeze to death. I would've appreciated having the choice to pay the insane (market) rate for electricity, but I didn't get a choice at all. If you're close to freezing to death and have access to a supply of electricity, turn your power on and take the hit.
My point wasn't that it's impossible to die, my point was that if you're someone who had the option to use electricity but didn't and therefore froze to death, that's definitely your fault.
You can't conflate "omg people are dying" with "omg the prices were too high". The two problems are literally mutually exclusive.
