@Sue E.
Here, indeed. (We have frequent power outages, but it isn't more than a minor "okay, then it's fruit or something else raw for dinner, and reading by candlelight" annoyance.) Before moving here, we however lived in Tennessee, so all the "cold, house not well insulated, house quickly down to less than 10 °C, tornado" thing (however, without a reptile).
The bad insulation was really the worst. Lost of power or otherwise no heating available at my parent's place (that's in the mountains in Germany, often power outage due to snow) in the winter? Of course not a nice thing, but ways better insulation makes the difference.
