On Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 8:30:51 AM UTC-7, Mark Lloyd wrote:

Here, long (more than a couple of hours) outages seem to happen every 8
years. However, only 1 of the last 3 have been in the winter.

As I said in another post, I was glad to have the gas logs (gas water
heater too).

Mark Lloyd

Last two outages (rare around here)
The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, several hours but I had a small plug-in-the-car TV set to watch the local news.
A year or two ago, a car took out a telephone pole.
Got the gas powered generator started when the electricity came back on