[discostu]

I can go 200+ miles on a full tank of gas, there are a dozen different cities, a chunk of another state, and even part of another country in that radius. I don't think they're taking out the electricity for that far.

One must also remember that I live someplace that has no natural disasters. Tucson doesn't have earthquakes, run-away fires, snow, or volcanoes. In the 25+ years I've lived here we've had 2 tornadoes with a combined time on the ground of about 90 seconds, the worst flood we ever had shut down some parts of the city or a whopping 4 or 5 hours. One really nasty storm took out electricity on the extreme north-west side of town for almost 2 days, but the rest of the city was basically unaffected (my neighborhood had no power for a couple of hours). We're a very spread out city (modern Tucson was actually multiple cities in the 1800's that eventually grew together and incorporated as mostly 1 city) was actually and most of the vital parts of city life are highly decentralized because of it, and there are a lot of roads out of town so the only way to cut us off is via military occupation by a rather large force. This gives me the freedom to be rather snooty about emergency supplies.

[drjimmy]

I can go 200+ miles on a full tank of gas, there are a dozen different cities, a chunk of another state, and even part of another country in that radius. I don't think they're taking out the electricity for that far.
I didn't say anything about the power being out. If the computer that runs the gas pump don't accept your piece of plastic or even your cash, the gas pump don't turn on. There was a small taste of what could happen just a couple of weeks ago.