comment: >
  
  2038* is gonna be a whole another story
context: Wasn't it supposed to be most expensive in winter when supplies are scarce? >
  
  It's been a milder winter (Spain is at around 7 degrees above the norm), countries prepared for the winter before it hit and consumption was reduced to preserve gas reserves.  
  So yes; all of that was correctly predicted and therefore measures were taken to stop the worst possible outcome, plus we've been lucky so far in having warmer temperatures.  
  It's a bit like preparing for a big storm, and when it hits it doesn't feel as bad precisely because you're prepared for it. If you don't do anything and just wait for it outside then of course it would be a lot worse >
  
  People are weird about prevention.
  Same thing happened with Y2K. Hundreds of hours of work, work and work... got rewarded with snide comments and jokes when the greatest succes possible happened:
  Nothing, because the problems... got fixed preemptively.