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> I use the utility's outage map to find out when I'll have power again during storms, but I would bet most people turn to the Facebook page.

Do either of those pages get the power back sooner?

How about regulating and resourcing the power systems so that storms don't frequently take them out. I've lived in the same house for over thirty years and I can count the number of outages on the fingers of one hand. Two of them were planned and all were of less than 24 hours duration.

I'll grant you that I live in an area that doesn't have a lot of storms but even so the electricity company cuts a wide corridor either side of power lines to make sure that trees cannot fall on the lines.




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