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> Power outages are a normal thing and can happen at any time I cannot recall a single power outage in my home city that lasted longer than ~three hours. And e
by blattimwind 7y ago
> Power outages are a normal thing and can happen at any time
I cannot recall a single power outage in my home city that lasted longer than ~three hours. And even those "couple hours" outages are extremely rare, much less than once a year I would wager.
According to the statistics, the expected unavailability in my country is around 0.002 - 0.003 %. That's hardly something I would describe as a "normal thing" that "can happen at any time". That's a really rare thing.
The "SAIDI" value here is under 15 minutes. Meanwhile the median SAIDI of the US is ~1.5 hours. That still doesn't sound like a common thing.
- wglb 7y agoI lived in a very nice north shore suburb of Chicago for about 10 years, and we had one power outage that lasted four days. If I had critical stuff going on at home, like some key medical equipment, or other such process, I would make an investment in finding out how to cover for a multi-day outage.