[maxerickson]

I live in a small town in northern Michigan and while we do somewhat regularly have power outages during the winter, it's when we get freezing rain, snow isn't really a problem (and really, I haven't had issues here in town, I'm describing the issues that have hit the region).

[gwillen]

In my experience with winter-storm-related power outages, the core problem is often _wind_ rather than precipitation.