You can watch power outages creep up on Atlanta in real time: http://outagemap.georgiapower.com/external/default.html
How 21st century! I am not sure if this is an advantage or a disadvantage. People are overreacting, cleaning out grocery stores: http://www.weather.com/news/georgia-north-carolina-alabama-winter-storm-grocery-stores-photos-20140211 What are they going to do with all that food? If the power fails at home, the stuff in a refrigerator will go to waste. (Modern refrigerators do not take much electricity, so if you have any backup power you are good to go. My car battery 2 kW inverter keeps the fridge and many CFL lights on. I would not want to hook it up in the rain.) - Jed
