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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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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In addition to what these people said, this particular storm has a severe wind that came with the dropping temperatures. In many parts of the south, power lines are not buried for many reasons. Severe wind by itself can take down trees, but add that to freezing cold weather and you get trees that snap easily and fall on equipment and wires.