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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 i
by jerrysievert 5y ago
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.
- turbinerneiter 5y agoI'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.
- mschuster91 5y ago> 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.
- jerrysievert 5y agoWind, snow, and ice affect anything above ground. Doesn’t matter if 90% is buried if 10% isn’t.
- jerrysievert 5y agoDowntown 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.