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Could The Next Blackout Be More Deadly Than Katrina?
Season 2 Episode 6 | 10m 43s
| Video has closed captioning.
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?