Home / Series / Weathered / Aired Order / Season 1 / Episode 16

Could The Next Blackout Be More Deadly Than Katrina?

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. In 2003, a few transmission lines went down in Ohio leading to cascading failures across the Northeast and over 50 million people losing power. This event points toward critical vulnerabilities in our aging power grid. 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? Watch to find out.

English
  • Originally Aired December 8, 2021
  • Runtime 11 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
  • Production Code Sh1GkbZKxo0
  • Network PBS
  • Production Company PBS Productions
  • Created December 9, 2021 by
    shriek
  • Modified December 9, 2021 by
    shriek