They do try to fix it and in the vast majority of cases it's a bunch of hours. If it's longer than that, people have electric heaters, some use their gas stoves... you can kind of handle that for a short while.
And it's usually quite localized, some blocks don't have it, obviously if it affects large chunks of the population priority goes up.
And it's usually quite localized, some blocks don't have it, obviously if it affects large chunks of the population priority goes up.