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Save Your Home From a Texas-Size Disaster
Fight extreme weather with insulation, generators and Tesla technology.
Start with the roof.
Photographer: Cooper Neill/Bloomberg
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Storms and frigid weather have walloped the U.S. this February. Millions in Texas lost power for days — in homes that aren’t prepared for the sort of cold we saw last week:
Come summer, those of us up north will likely be sweltering in temperatures that our un-air-conditioned houses weren’t built for. All of this taxes the power grid, which faces additional stress from climate-change induced superstorms.