Even in deep Russia I don't think "power goes out with first winter storm" is a thing. and I thought russian infra sucked...
That said I remember power could go out from a lightning storm or without any reason. But pretty rarely
I am in Honolulu right now and the power has gone out twice in the last three days because of high winds.
Russian infra doesn’t suck that much, I guess it was overbuilt in soviet times. Armenian, on the oner hand… But they’re “societally prepared” in the sense that repairs are quick usually, and there are even some upgrades recently.