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  I'm in rural Alaska but I"lll take a shot (I have relatives in northern Maine). Maine, like us, has huge rural swaths. Like no joke rural. These are probably the areas with outages due to the sheer amount of trees falling on the lines, aging infrastructure and winds from the ocean. If your moving there and buying a home if it doesn't have a toyostove, a wood stove or a full house generator it I'd call it a deal breaker and keep looking
context: Brutal. Not awful in Toronto but our friends 90min south in Buffalo seem to be getting pounded. Hopefully the power stays up as it is fucking freezing! >
  
  Or us unlucky punks that had the power go out have wood stoves. That's what's keeping me warm right now and if the power is still out for days then it will be keeping me alive.
  Seriously if you live in a cold place you should invest in an emergency wood stove >
  
  Or a back up generator >
  
  Preferably both, but I would say that a stove fireplace is much more reliable and you don't need gas at hand to use it, though I suppose you need wood at hand >
  
  You can also cook on it! >
  
  You can cook on a gas generator if you lay the food near the exhaust and don’t mind cancer >
  
  Carcinogens! My favorite spice >
  
  In Buffalo, NY we’re currently dealing with 5 foot snow drifts and 70 mph gusts with a -15°F windchill. People are stuck in their cars and are running out of gas. Emergency vehicles are stuck and are mostly unavailable. It’s pretty bad. >
  
  I cannot understand why anyone was on the road. If businesses forced their workers to be out they should be held criminally liable >
  
  
  If businesses forced their workers to be out they should be held criminally liable
  
  Sorry, you seem to have mistaken the US for a sane country where it's considered bad to sacrifice your worker's lives for profit. >
  
  State:                       Out:
  Maine                    252,688
  New Hampshire    110,486
  New York              94,723
  Pennsylvania       87,231
  Virginia                75,759
  Massachusetts   70,000
  North Carolina    64,758
  Maryland             62,287
  Connecticut        54,246
  Vermont              42,159
  Ohio                    37,475
  Kentucky            35,916
  Texas                  33,522
  Tennessee         29,408
  Michigan            23,222
  New Jersey       22,732
  Washington       19,589
  Louisiana           17,888
  West Virginia     14,319
  Alaska                11,511
  Top 20 states   1,159,919
  Total nationwide 1,228,882 >
  
  Btw Maine only has like 1.3 million people living in it. So for us to be at the top is insane >
  
  My wife and I are retiring to Maine next year.  Any idea why so many out?  Are there more above ground wires due to the rocky soil, more remote wires, or was it the state just got hit harder?