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Lessons from a Winter Power Outage in the Suburbs

• https://www.theorganicprepper.com by Joanna Miller

However, with highs around 50 and lows around 20, it was still unpleasant, particularly with three small children.

We all survived and learned a little bit about long-term power outages.

How (we think) the power outage started

The summer before the outage, the power company had done some work in our backyard. We experienced no problems at the time, but the workmen probably nicked one of the wires because eight months later, after moisture had had time to get at the wires, we lost power when none of our neighbors did.  

We didn't know we would be out of power for so long. We called an electrician who thought it would take only two days to fix. But he needed a permit from the city to tear up our yard, and it wound up taking longer than we thought. We kept thinking, "Well, it'll only be one more day," until it had been almost six days.


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