Random Talk

[Uncle]

benji liked my joke but not my actual advice  

Does the power just go out regularly for no reason over there? 

What's the story here?

there are parts of the US that get pretty intense weather patterns, high winds, tornadoes, which don't happen often enough that infrastructure is designed around perfectly withstanding it (if that's even possible)

lots of trees plus lots of elevated power lines and a branch falls over onto a power line, cutting off power for a bunch of people

you can also be in a rural area and be located at the end of the line so that only your power gets cut off, so you're not a high priority fix when they've got areas where a dozen people are cut off, which exacerbates the issue for a minority of people

also, it's actually built to fail gracefully; think of it like a string of christmas lights, with older designs if one light failed the whole string would die, and you'd have to replace them one by one to find the fault, but all modern designs are set up so that you see the one light that burned out so you can replace just that one