> I live in a heavily populated area with high standard of living, and yet we have had power outages lasting up to a week in the years we've lived here. Maybe

> I live in a heavily populated area with high standard of living, and yet we have had power outages lasting up to a week in the years we've lived here. Maybe you are in the USA? The infrastructure situation seems to be different there. We don't have any above-ground power lines in this country (except for high-voltage long-distance transmission trunks) and in the past ten years the power has gone out exactly twice, according to my uptime logs - once for 40 minutes and once for about three hours.