I can't remember a longer outage than that offhand, but in ~40 years, I'm sure there have been some. Causes of power outages I can think of that might happen i

I can't remember a longer outage than that offhand, but in ~40 years, I'm sure there have been some. Causes of power outages I can think of that might happen in my area: - wind storm - ice storm - tornado - squirrel got in a transformer - car hit a pole I'm sure there have been more unusual things in several decades, but those are what come to mind. One thing to keep in mind is if you are in a position where only your home lost power, or only your apartment building, you may be a low priority and have to wait longer for the power company than if there are a bunch of customers without power.