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by lemmiwinks 1123 days ago
> If you had a multi-day electric or gas outage in New York in mid-January, you'd see exactly the same thing happen.

No: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_...

Multiple weeks without electricity for some, but only 34 deaths. (And in Quebec, most people heat their houses with electricity)

"Fun" fact: In Montreal, more people die in heatwaves than of cold. Unless you're a drunk hobo that is: because they are shelters in winter, but old people die in summer in crammed apartments without AC.

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