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Despite the severe cold, families from around Lyon County gather Wednesday at the Prairie Street bridge hill in Emporia for sledding.

How Rolling Blackouts Helped Regional Power Grid Avoid ‘Cascading Failures’

By Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector, Lucas Lord | February 24, 2021

Federal regulators are investigating how the Midwest power grid had come so close to a catastrophic failure during a winter weather blast last week.

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