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Unless they live in Texas, California or New York.



Again, even in those states, the rolling blackouts are really rare, or correspond to certain events (often both, most people outside of California don’t realize 5e blackouts didn’t apply to La/Bay Area where most Californians lived, and only rural towns were effected).

We can also cherry pick European blackouts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages if fairness is desired. If we want to go by frequency, Australia seems to be the worst developed country for blackouts, but their infrastructure is more spread out.




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