*sporfle* Yeah, it's definitely nice when powerlines don't go down regularly with storms and such. I mean, okay, thunderstorms here aren't as bad as some I've seen in the US, but still, I'm constantly surprised how unreliable basic services seem to be in the US. People there seem to think that's some kind of law of nature that you have to accept regular power outages. In my lifetime I can't remember a single time electricity didn't work because of some larger problem than a broken fuse. Admittedly the climate is a bit nicer wrt huge natural disasters here, and I'm in a city so there's not much chance of something falling on a powerline, but it's not like you don't get thunderstorms in summer, and pretty severe winterstorms with flooding and lots of property damage. And yet I actually don't even think of turning off appliances just because of storms and/or lightening.
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Yeah, it's definitely nice when powerlines don't go down regularly with storms and such. I mean, okay, thunderstorms here aren't as bad as some I've seen in the US, but still, I'm constantly surprised how unreliable basic services seem to be in the US. People there seem to think that's some kind of law of nature that you have to accept regular power outages. In my lifetime I can't remember a single time electricity didn't work because of some larger problem than a broken fuse. Admittedly the climate is a bit nicer wrt huge natural disasters here, and I'm in a city so there's not much chance of something falling on a powerline, but it's not like you don't get thunderstorms in summer, and pretty severe winterstorms with flooding and lots of property damage. And yet I actually don't even think of turning off appliances just because of storms and/or lightening.