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Originally Posted by porsche4life View Post
It is not uncommon for an ice storm to knock out power here for days at a time. Solution? Really big freaking generator/welder. Work with it the rest of the year. Power the whole house when the **** hits the fan...
Yup. I don't have a generator, as much as I'd like one. I have a fireplace and candles, that's enough to get me by during a winter outage.

Our entire neighborhood has all of the lines buried, yet somehow we still have periodic outages. Something upstream on the grid must be a weakness.
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