Dark Texas with Charles Petrie, Jr.

Please join us Tuesday, February 17 for Texas Talks with Charles Petrie, Jr., author of Dark Texas.

What happens when the grid goes down—and it’s not coming back up anytime soon?

In a chillingly realistic tale inspired by actual events, Dark Texas unfolds the moment when a brutal winter storm overwhelms the Lone Star State, triggering a cascading failure of its energy infrastructure. As oil and gas wellheads freeze, wind turbines seize, and the power grid buckles under the pressure, ordinary people must navigate extraordinary circumstances.

Charles J Petrie, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT Austin and is retired from Stanford University where he had been an Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist.