I live in Edmonton AB. I believe we began burying our lines in the 90s. As long as all new developments get buried, you can catch up on primary runs in city cores by directional drilling fairly quickly. The only time I've personally seen outages in the winter would be from vehicles crashing into transformers. Power back on in an hour. -40⁰c is pretty common for us, I couldn't imagine loosing power for any longer than that without a wood burning stove or a gas fireplace.
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I live in Edmonton AB. I believe we began burying our lines in the 90s. As long as all new developments get buried, you can catch up on primary runs in city cores by directional drilling fairly quickly. The only time I've personally seen outages in the winter would be from vehicles crashing into transformers. Power back on in an hour. -40⁰c is pretty common for us, I couldn't imagine loosing power for any longer than that without a wood burning stove or a gas fireplace.