Alabama "Power"

When I was traveling in a third world country, the power was somewhat a luxury. It was usually there, but randomly the power would turn off for hours at a time and you'd have almost no choice but to melt in the heat.

We used to joke about how at least that problem doesn't exist here. But over the last year or so I've been pretty surprised by the undependable power we get. Now it seems like whenever there is a storm with thunder and lightening, it's almost a certainty that we're going to lose power. I mean, it rained tonight and we made it through most of the storm until randomly we just lost power for about 40 minutes.

I know there are occasional times when things like a dead snake get caught in the distribution center (happend once...) but could the power at least make it through rain?

May be because of the monopoly, there just isn't enough of a push to upgrade the aging grid.