quote During his 3 p.m. weather report on Wednesday, Travis Herzog, a meteorologist for KTRK in Houston, stood in front of a screen showing the astronomically high temperatures broiling Texas — as hot as 105 degrees in College Station. When you “have this kind of heat over major populations,” Herzog explained, “you get a big draw on that electric demand.” But just before Herzog uttered the word “electric,” the lights went out, turning Herzog into a silhouette in front of the weather map. “It looks like we may have just switched over to generator power; our lights just went out,” Herzog said before continuing to talk about the “excessive heat” in some Texas cities. Seconds later, the lights turned back on. But two hours later, it happened again. As Herzog warned of triple-digit heat in some regions of Texas on the 5 p.m. broadcast, the lights shut off.

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"A Texas meteorologist warned of power outages. Then the lights went out."
Julian Mark for the Washington Post; July 15, 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost....st-lights-heat-wave/

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