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by 988747 1482 days ago
>> We have several 24 hour and 1 or 2 48 hour long outages every winter.

That makes the US seem like a third world country. In my apartment in central Europe I experienced only one, few hours long, power outage in over 10 years (not counting the few times when electricity was temporarily cut off because of unpaid bills :)

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Yes and no.

On the one hand I do find it to be an example of civilizational inadequacy and I am critical of my state and local government as a result.

On the other hand, I have made a decision to live in a very, very rural place that has almost nothing at all in common with the very urban place you describe living in.