PG&E blackouts last longer than elsewhere.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...?ArtNum=266901

The longest time my electric power went out was because of Hurricane
Katrina.That lasted about seventeen hours.Some people in the Jackson
metro area (about half a million people, including the suburbs) though,
their power was out much longer than that.I was Lucky.
cuhulin