Millions of people in Texas have gone three or more days without power, water or both. Texas has had winter weather before, so what went so wrong this time?
Reporter
Mose Buchele of NPR member station
KUT in Austin explains why the state's power grid buckled under demand in the storm. And
Marshall Shepherd, director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, explains the link between more extreme winter weather and climate change.
Additional reporting in this episode from NPR's
Camila Domonoske, who reported on
the Texas power grid,
Ashley Lopez of
KUT,
Laura Isensee of
Houston Public Media, and
Dominic Anthony Walsh of
Texas Public Radio.
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