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"Dave Garland" <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote in message 
news:n6rhgm$g4f$1@dont-email.me...
> On 1/9/2016 1:11 AM, 879 wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Dave Garland" <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote in message
>> news:n6q6ol$u3v$1@dont-email.me...
>
>>> Though my friend in Atlanta says everybody's got backup generators,
>>> because the outages there are so frequent, so YMMV.
>>
>> Weird that a first world country would put up with such an obscene
>> result.
>>
>> We don’t normally get one a year and they rarely last that long.
>
> The 'burbs are hilly and parts are thickly wooded, and the infrastructure 
> is old. Mostly it's wind blowing branches (or trees) down that takes out 
> lines, but there's a lot of trees, some of them old and decrepit.

Plenty of ours are just like that and they still don’t see more
than one a year.

> And kudzu. I don't expect they get outages downtown.