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I don't remember when the last one happened. We have like 5 minutes of downtime per year in Germany on average
Also German here, that seems a high estimate. The only downtime I had this year was when the workers building our sidewalk grazed a cable bug I can't remember any over the last few years...
I assume even stuff like ahrtaal is calculated in. So for the average person it's a lot lower.
Longest I've had was 2 days. But that's because I had work done on my electrical panel. 😁
The worst I had was when the heating for our building failed... on Christmas Eve. No hot water or heating until January 5th because they couldn't find the part, it was more complex than they expected, another part needed replacing etc. etc. etc. Fuck me, was it cold, and I like my flat cold! Had to got the gym every morning for a shower. At least I got a rent reduction.
We only have the big transmission lines above ground, so our grid is not that weather sensitive. A week would be insane here
I remember we used to get power outages all the time in my countries. But that was the 1970s, modern infrastructure has moved on
Well, everywhere except AHEM 🤔
Trying to think of the last time I had a long outage here, it might have been 5-10 years ago.
Apparently a bunch of trees fell over power lines / infrastructure last night, and so there were outages all over the place