I'm in the middle of the frozen tundra in Canada, we're powered entirely by renewable energy, we've got snow storms, blizzards, floods and some serious thunder storms and I can't even recall the last time we lost power for any noticeable amount of time. If anything having to reset the clock on the microwave is the only reason I'd know it went out. There's talk of moving to a smart grid system because ours is dated, so wtf are you people working with?

I do love me a good flashlight though, I've got a couple around the house just in case and one in my bag at all times.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Where the heck y’all live where the power goes out so often?

we’re powered entirely by renewable energy

That's probably why. For example, Hydro One uses old equipment and doesn't give a fuck about maintaining their aging equipment so it all just breaks catastrophically eventually, especially during bad weather. Transformers blow fairly often in bad weather tbh.

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