This will be frustrating when Google decides (as they always do) to stop supporting the older hardware. I use the Home Edition for my parent's computer. The update process is virtually seamless for my parents and it just works.
A service I run on Digital Ocean was affected by this early this morning. Looks like it was mitigated by DO - so I'm very grateful for that. Although, the service I run is time sensitive so failures like this are pretty unfortunate for me. Where would I get started with building in redundancy against these sort of outages?
As an Albertan living in Edmonton and as per the feasibility study mentioned in the article, I don't think this is happening. That said, if by some miracle it does happen, that would be awesome!