If you are reading this you probably have power so the response might be tepid. I know we had big winds yesterday and all these outages may be completely explainable, but it just seem to me that even when mother nature simply sneezes big chunks of the grid go offline. From my experience this has worsened over the recent years.

I lose power, I would guess, 5-10 times a years. Most of these are just a few seconds, enough to have to reset the clock. Others are for hours.

A few years ago I gave up, bit the bullet and paid for a natural gas powered generator which is powering this post, not DTE. That choice was driven by the great 2003 blackout when the ability to get other forms of generator fuel, gasoline or propane, was next to impossible.

Is it time to start discussing/even mandating that key parts of the the grid be placed underground or otherwise sheltered? We do this with gas.

Here is the mess as of 10AM. Anything colored is out.