You’d be surprised!
I’m near Ottawa and in the past year I’ve been without power for 8 days, 5 days, and a handful of other times.
I’m on well water and our septic system requires a pump. When the power is out we have no water, sewer or heat.
The cell tower nearby only has about 1-2 hours of reserve power. There’s no hardwire communication here so we lose all outside communications after a couple of hours.
During the eight day outage, everywhere within about an hour drive was out of power. Gas stations were closed, grocery stores were closed, etc. That’s if you could even get anywhere—many highways and roads were closed due to fallen trees and power lines. Our own driveway had half a dozen mature trees across it.
It’s no active war zone, and it’s certainly not _two years_, but a lot of stuff you might not think would fly in Canada was exactly what many people were doing to get by.
