What Texans Can Learn from The UK Big Freeze

Will Texas experience another energy grid collapse? Maybe not.

Satellite image of snow-covered Great Britain on 7 January 2010, taken by MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite [public domain c/o NASA]

On 17 December 2009, it started snowing across Britain. It didn’t let up through that month or the next and on 5 January 2010, the temperature plummeted to −17.6 °C (0.3 °F) in Manchester, northwest England. It was the coldest winter since the late 1970s and became known as the Big Freeze.