How can the Southern power grid handle months of blistering heat with everyone blasting air conditioners, but can’t handle two days below freezing?

Question

How can the Southern power grid handle months of blistering heat with everyone blasting air conditioners, but can’t handle two days below freezing?

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Answer 1

Trees. We’re not used to cold temperatures and snow storms in the south, so we don’t trim trees near power lines as well as people up north. You get a little snow or rain that freezes on trees and they crack like grandpa’s back when he gets out of the la-z-boy. These broken limbs can fall on power lines and boom— no power.
Also, it’s still windy and cherry picker trucks can’t operate their boom in high winds. So it’ll take time to fix the problem.