I got my neighbors together a decade ago to complain to the PSC and get our block's ~50 year old high voltage wires, pole cross ties and insulators replaced and the whole thing given a prune job.
The extension to another block where folks didn't want the tree trimming got a circuit breaker so they don't bring us down anymore.
It's been a definite improvement in reliability.
Buying a sine wave inverter to run off a bank of 12volt batteries and hooking up to the cars for recharging takes care providing minimal 120v backup (has to be manually rigged).
Buying a sine wave inverter to run off a bank of 12volt batteries and hooking up to the cars for recharging takes care providing minimal 120v backup (has to be manually rigged). www.generac.com Got a 15,000kw unit after the Isabel outage, runs on propane wih an automatic transfer switch.
Downside is that at the current price of propane power outages cost me $5.00/hour.