A few nights ago the light in my office flickered several times then blinked out. I overreacted: “Well, there goes the grid,” I thought.
To my relief it was just an exhausted light bulb.
Still, Texans can be forgiven if we’re a little anxious about our electrical grid. Like much of the world, Texas is hot this summer. Texas is always hot in the summer, of course, but this summer is something different.