My family in mid-1930s (highly rural region)....finally got power...as the grid company (the TVA) came by and put up a pole, and ran a cable to the front-porch. The family had bought one light-socket and bulb. So for several months....this was their one single use of power (the bulb on the porch). They would eventually screen-up the porch....because of bug problems.
By the late 40s...the total consumption vehicles for power in the house....were eight lights, a washer, and a oven. That was it.
Today, in my German house....if I count pure consumption vehicles....there's likely sixty total things 'sucking' off power.
I had a professor in the 1980s who spent an hour talking over the economics of the grid, and how the general public have no clear understanding of the vast amount of equipment/hardware/personnel required to make everything work.
In the 18 months I lived downtown Panama City.....the power was out around 12 hours per week. You got used to it....after a while.
In my German house....I experience a outage twice a year....usually no more than 30 minutes.
German news last night noted that the THW folks (the German civil emergency guys) did have around 200 of the big-scale electrical generators (diesel-powered)....but had deployed them to the Ukraine.
It appears that whoever the evil intent guy/group is....the experts are pretty drawn to the idea that they knew precisely of the damage that would be caused.
Finally, the worry of pipe-breakages come up. If you were in a building of 'age'....it's possible because of the temp's that you might have pipes to rupture. Right now....Berlin evening temp's are forecasted around minus-5 C....99-percent of homes/apartments ought to survive the heat outage.
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