growing up in chicagoland when it snowed blizzard level often with lots of accumulation (70s, 80s), the power never went off, to your point also.

Losing power is highly correlated with above-ground power lines. Who'd a thunk that.

	▲	dd82 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		and wildfires, see PG&E in CA. they're expecting to spend 10B burying lines in the mountains. New england is pretty much one big rock garden/shelf where you're not digging through soil in alot of places but rock ledges.