Preparation tips for the summer blackout season

Preparation tips for the summer blackout season

Summer may best be known for lounging poolside, family vacations, and neighborhood barbeques, but there's a darker side to summer, too - electric grid blackouts and brownouts.

While blackouts can occur any time of the year, high winds from hurricanes and strong summer thunderstorms can knock out electrical lines, and high temperatures can create demand that overloads the electrical grid, causing blackouts.