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The universe's way of asking if you actually read that book or just bought it.
means A temporary loss of electrical power to a building or area, usually from grid failure, storms, or overloaded systems.
from A straightforward compound: 'power' (from Latin 'posse,' to be able) joined to 'outage,' a 20th-century American coinage built from 'out' plus the noun suffix '-age,' originally used by utility companies to describe the amount or period of something being out of service. 'Outage' first described lost or leaked substances like shipped liquids before electrical grids borrowed it for their own interruptions.
- candle sales
- spike 300% within hours of outages
- fridge rule
- stays cold 4 hours unopened
- cause ranking
- squirrels outscore storms in some grids
- generator irony
- needs electricity to start electric starters