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How often do you have power outages?

Can't remember one in the last 10 years.

10-15 times/year where I live now (suburb of major city) when you count the brownouts. even though power here is underground, there's enough aboveground that it still goes out or blinks often enough to have a UPS.

when I lived on a mountain, quite a few more for sometimes days at a time.

when I lived downtown in the major city in a high-rise, 2-3 times/year when you counted brownouts/blips.

a slack I'm on for the area had outages throughout the city.

so, if you only get it once in the last 10 years, count yourself lucky. I'm on the west coast, not Texas, and there is quite a bit of power generation nearby.

I'm pretty sure I hadn't a single one since I'm in Munich (2009). I remember some planned outages as kid at my parents place, and occasionally we tripped the circuit breakers.

I guess Munich has a really good grid. Everything underground and safe from natural disasters.

> Everything underground and safe from natural disasters.

Well, until stuff gets digged out for construction... I was affected by the arson attack in Berg am Laim last year, took about twelve hours for power to get back.

Wind, snow, and ice affect anything above ground. Doesn’t matter if 90% is buried if 10% isn’t.

Downtown core, everything underground, fire in the vault. That was the last outage I was living there for. Since there were 2 grid operators, I had power after about 6 hours, others across the street went days without.

We get a clock resetter about every other week, and > 20 min outage maybe twice a year in New Hampshire.

What? Do you reset clocks deliberately by cycling the power, or is it a description of an outage so long it will reset clocks?

I think they mean the latter. When I lived in rural Wisconsin we'd get those at least once a month in the summer, usually from thunderstorms. The lights would go out for a second, and the clocks would start flashing 12:00. Haven't seen it happen since moving into town though.

I think what they meant was an outage so short that it will reset the clock on the microwave/stove/bedside alarm but that you don't notice it otherwise. In the northeast, these happen frequently overnight, usually due to minor weather events or grid maintenance.

Most of my clocks are internet connected and battery backed, so the only ones left in my house that are affected are on kitchen appliances.

Home, very seldom. This is in a summer cabin where the infrastructure is really bad (and under reconstruction)... Getting much better but sill one every other month and since it is a summer cabin it can take quite a while before I can do it manually.

Ok, that puts me at ease :D

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