I think the author of this article may exaggerated the costs of these improvements or, like another commenter lamented, these costs may be reflective of the Beverly Hills/San Francisco area, but is certainly not the average costs for most Americans. In my area, due to storms, we generally lose power once a year for 3-7...more

@ Really94... She didn't have a choice in the matter of having 1 to 3 kids... are you seriously that disconnected to her twisted story and foolish enough to comment on it? She already had 6 children, was unemployed, living on welfare and made the conscious choice to have a medical procedure to have more children. Go pa...more