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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4055050, member: 77814&quot;]Stereotypically when there is a large swath power outage, a psychological effect initiates and people go home to see what is happening there.&nbsp; No power at home means the refrigerator and freezer are not working.&nbsp; In winter, it normally means no heat. And of course, no lights.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most general stores I&#039;ve seen stay open.&nbsp; A pizza shop may close as no power to run the oven, etc etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I guess the stores where no cash is accepted would be closed too ...</p><p>Cell Towers (if outside the blackout area of course would still be powered) and Land Lines are normally powered separately.&nbsp; Land Line/telephone poles can run from a portable generator.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in short, if you use electronic funds you may be out of luck.</p><p>If you have cash then you probably really aren&#039;t affected for general basic stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last blackout around here . if you needed gas and didn&#039;t have cash you were out of luck.&nbsp; If you had cash, you got gas.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t ask, but they probably didn&#039;t take PMs either.&nbsp; After all, how do you correlate dollars to PMs?&nbsp; You can&#039;t just look it up online in a blackout.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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