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People tend to be mighty unreasonable when complaining about storms interrupting electric power supplies. When I was living on Cape Cod shortly after WWII, the lines failed frequently because during the war new cable could not be had, and there were hundreds of mickey-mouse repair places that kept failing even in minor wind storms. A friend of the family worked for the power company, and got electrocuted by a safety switch that failed. He wasn't even supposed to be working on it, he was a supervisor, but just over-dedicated and short of qualified workers. Few consumers had any idea what the power company was up against, and how unreasonable their complaints were.
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