Erhm, do you honestly expect to keep your A/C running during a power outage? First world problems indeed..
Insulating your property to keep heat out/in is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying enough backup power to keep your A/C running...
Insulating your property to keep heat out/in is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying enough backup power to keep your A/C running...
And guess what? 5 months later, the summer comes, the tree trimming still wasn't done, and half the city lost power again due to a summer storm. Out for 6 days in our house. Every day we reached the 90s. Good luck insulating yourself from that heat for almost a week! Having A/C was pretty nice. The power company now inspects and trims around lines every couple of years, just to avoid power outages so wide they can't bring power back at an acceptable timeframe.
That said, the situation is rather regional: I'd not care about AC or heating in a power outage if I lived in Northern California. Around here, where we can hit the 100s in the summer and go under zero in the winter, you have to care a bit. My friend in Alaska cares even more.
So first world problems? Depends on where you live.
We also had temperatures in the nineties for the last five days here, yet nobody has AC in their home. It's not a big problem with insulation. Of course we also don't have non-redundant overland power lines. Power outages we super rare.
Yeah. Lets pay $18,000 for a backup solution instead of $3000 one.
The real "first world problems" are the guys who have so much money they can afford to purchase based on ethics, as opposed to practicality.
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My power-outage plan is btw: walk to the mall / library and use their AC. If I were to get a backup unit for my house, it'd be sized for my AC unit for sure however.