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Man, all of these responses are crazy to me. They sound like living in some corporate cyberpunk dystopia instead of a developed economy. Been living in Sydney for 35 years. Grew up on the outskirts that were minutes from bush and farmland. I have essentially never experienced power loss for more than a day. I don't think the powers been out for more than 6 hours in the last 2 decades. I don't even think the power's cut out once in the last 2-3 years. There may have been 1 or 2 occasions that took longer than a day, after severe storms, when I was a child, but the memories are so vague I'm not sure they even happened, and definitely not more than 48 hours.
I grew up with computers and cable, so I would remember if I were forced to raw dog existence for fucking days. It would of been trauma.
Central Europe here, same. Even when a tree hit a transformer or something, it was repaired/rerouted within a day.
Although, growing up, our internet was shitty for quite a long time (as in, we used 3G over the barely functional landline).