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In rural, particularly forested, parts of North Europe, the one-step-up-from-domestic local power lines come in overhead (because they have to, because running a power line under fifty miles of forest to serve a hamlet of twenty houses is ridiculous). When the trees grow and it snows hard enough (or gloopily enough), the power can go down and stay down for days or even weeks while kilometres of line are restrung. However, unlike in Puerto Rico -- or 1998 Auckland! -- it does not go down for months.