Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this

  • grahamsz@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah that seems kinda crazy to me too. I’ve lived in my current house for 8 years and the only time the power has gone out was when a vehicle crashed into one of the distribution boxes by the road. Our power and internet come from the same provider so it was a double whammy for several hours.

    But I suppose it depends where you are - i worked at a place that had two independent power feeds from two different cities, massive UPSs to run the datacenter for 10 minutes and then two redundant diesel generators with several months of fuel on site. I still saw that go down twice in my time there.

    • socphoenix@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      When we lived in Missouri the power went out twice ish a year, sometimes more. Amazing how fragile that stuff is when nobody invests in the infrastructure for the town.

      • GiantPossum@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I have no way to prove it, but I’m 99.9% sure that CenterPoint Energy (Who services this grid around here) leave stuff on its last legs so it gets damaged in a hurricane, and they can claim that juicy FEMA money to fix it.

        • grahamsz@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Round here it’s all government run. The city runs power, water, sewer, phone, internet, trash/recycle/compost.

          We’ve got the second fastest internet in the country (and it’s free for low income people), our power gets an American Public Power Diamond rating for reliability, we’re (mostly) on track for being 100% renewable power by 2030, the city captures and liquifies the methane from the sewage treatment process and uses it to run the garbage trucks (that say “Powered by You” on them) and our rates for all of that are cheaper than commercial providers.

          Amazingly we still run into people who live here, know all that and still believe that the government is incapable of running anything well… it’s kind of startling.

          Still, that makes a bit more sense for why you have a generator and that then pretty much requires you have a UPS - so i get it.