In the northeast region where I live, both of us have fairly extreme winters, and every one of us also have particularly hot & humid summers, and finally, both of us will often experience ice storms in the seasons between the two extremes due to the thawing & recold hot & cold temperatures.
These temperature extremes make a reliable power supply more important than ever, but however, both of us have lost power in each of the aforementioned seasons, during ice storms, the entire part can lose power when broken, ice-laden tree branches fall on power lines.
Once both of us had no heat for more than two mornings, not to mention no hot water for the showers. Boy did both of us ever jump for joy when both of us heard the heating system turn on when the power was restored. In the summer, when both of us desperately need our cooling system to be operating at full capacity, we’ve lost power from a lightning strike. If always amazes me that when the home gets hot & humid separate from the cooling system it seems that being cold in a home in the Wintertide separate from a heating system seems love a better scenario. Then there was the time that the power in our home went out however none of the neighbors lost theirs. I could hear their central cooling systems humming away while both of us were perspiring out the wait until the power supplier showed up. This time the cause of losing power was that a raccoon had climbed the power pole in our yard & chewed on the wires. Every one of us found hid cold, dead body at the base of the pole. So as much as I dislike to complain, there’s nothing love a high efficiency heating system to keep hot in the Wintertide & a top-notch cooling system to keep cool in the summer.