> the scariest thing out there - apart from possibly downed trees and
power lines - is other drivers
I expected Linus to be more scared by an internet outage than SUVs!
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#22Cellular 4G/5G + Laptop. I want to hear the excuses for this combo.
Cell towers need power too.
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#23I cannot imagine losing power for an hour, let alone a week. I grew up in rural Australia and it's completely unfathomable to me that anywhere in the first world could go without power for so long.
Here in (somewhat) rural New York the power goes out for a couple hours at least a few times per year. Sometimes up to 6 hours.
In my town most people have propane (or gas) generators to compensate.
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#24I cannot imagine losing power for an hour, let alone a week. I grew up in rural Australia and it's completely unfathomable to me that anywhere in the first world could go without power for so long.
Really? I would say most rural places, if have a power issue, won't get it resolved in one hour...
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#25> Of course, this is Oregon, so "storm" here is what some people
would probably consider "somewhat windy", and "winter" here means that
the temperature is approaching -10°C.
Hehe, I hope though his time estimate is not correct? Still baffled that certain power strategies and gas dependencies of certain other countries were not too long ago heavily discussed and criticized as the end, with people soon to be dying and freezing (just very theoretically, as this never manifested), largely by not involved US citizens, while these outages seem to be the norm and quite kind of accepted in the US nowadays? Wrong impression, likely very different?
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#28I cannot imagine losing power for an hour, let alone a week. I grew up in rural Australia and it's completely unfathomable to me that anywhere in the first world could go without power for so long.
I grew up behind the iron curtain and power outages were a given, twice a day. Freezing temperatures in the apartments as well. But that was the Romanian communism and 50 years ago, not the USA today. Today I'm in rural Switzerland and never experienced outages, so I wouldn't accept arguments like "oh but everybody has outages on the countryside".
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#29I cannot imagine losing power for an hour, let alone a week. I grew up in rural Australia and it's completely unfathomable to me that anywhere in the first world could go without power for so long.
I live in rural Australia and about a decade ago we lost power for 5 days after a cyclone swept through. Some parts of the grid are pretty vulnerable. I have solar and a battery now. :-)
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#30I cannot imagine losing power for an hour, let alone a week. I grew up in rural Australia and it's completely unfathomable to me that anywhere in the first world could go without power for so long.
We lost power for 4 days last year in Canada's second biggest city, Montreal :). The weather is pretty harsh to power infra in north America for sure