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I live in Canada. Snow and ice storms are a reality that make self sufficiency highly desirable.

• vidarh 5y ago
  I grew up in Norway. Snow and storms were insufficient to give most people a reason to worry. Some homes will have a fireplace or wood fired stove as a last resort, but it's more and more rare. In rural areas having a fallback is slightly more common. So I stand by what I said: Many places the power reliability is high enough. A long outage in Norway would be treated as a major national emergency.