It’s a good precaution no matter where you live.”
Some people forget that if there is a power outage, regardless of the reason, either the pumps won’t work or you can’t use your credit card and need to have cash.
Remember when I was just out of high school in the late 50’s. My best friend had a VW bug that didn’t have a gas gauge. There was a lever that you flipped when you ran out the first time and then you would need to get to a station sooner rather than later before the reserve ran out. Unfortunately she could never remember whether she had flipped the lever already or not and we ran out of gas and were stranded a lot of times. The only saving grace at that time was that gas was only $.20/gallon. Learned a valuable lesson and always kept/keep lots of gas in the tank.
“There was a lever that you flipped when you ran out the first time and then you would need to get to a station sooner rather than later before the reserve ran out. “
I did not know VW bugs had that feature! But most or all pre- fuel injection motorcycles do.