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Powerless: How One Mistake Shut Down America

Powerless: How One Mistake Shut Down America

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We feared Y2K would shut down the world — it didn’t.
But twice in American history, the power grid failed anyway.

This episode explores the largest blackouts in U.S. history — from the 1965 Northeast blackout to the massive 2003 outage that disconnected 50 million people in minutes.

We break down what went wrong, the hidden vulnerabilities in the power grid, the financial impact, and what was done to prevent it from happening again.

Then, we examine how Texas’s 2021 winter outages were different — not a sudden failure, but a prolonged collapse that led to tragic loss of life.

This isn’t about fear.
It’s about understanding the systems we depend on — and what happens when they fail.

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