Weathered: Earth’s Extremes

Could The Next Blackout Be More Deadly Than Katrina? (2x6)

Air date: Dec 08, 2021

With climate change making temperatures more extreme each year, like we recently saw in the great Texas freeze and the Northwest heatwave, large-scale power outages become a matter of life and death. Could a power grid failure during an extreme weather event be the most deadly weather disaster in US history? And what can we do to prevent this kind of catastrophic blackout?