North Texas has been hit with some of the coldest temperatures ever experienced in the area, with windchills hitting negative double-digits earlier today. Late last night, the power grid reached a critical point and rolling power outages were enacted to help save an overworked infrastructure.
At first, those rolling outages were supposed to last between 15 and 45 minutes. It only took until the early morning hours of the work day for that to be revised to “it could be several hours” as the power grid continues to suffer outages from a variety of sources, including frozen wind turbines, coal, natural gas, and even nuclear plants.