My guess is that with 99% of the population, 15 minutes into a power outage, most will be annoyed. 30 minutes in they are ------. An hour in and they are in full blown panic. Where will they be in 48 hours with no heat and pipes starting to freeze? No heat, no light and no way to cook food if they have it.
If prepared, most will come through an outage of several days with no harm done. That should be the goal of us all. Once it hits the fan, its too late.
So backup heat, water and ability to cook that requires no power to run. If that isn't possible, then backup power should be considered, but one that does not depend on a 5 gallon can of gas to keep it going. Big joke with Hurricane Sandy was the richy rich folks on Long Island got their little Honda generators going, but only had 10 gallons of gas. A couple days later when that ran out, they trudged off the the gas station only to find them sold out and dry. So the generators went silent.
So if the plan is a supplemental generator to keep things going, you better have a good fuel option lined up. One you can tap into a natural gas or your big propane tank should be the goal since you may not be able to get to a gas station, and keeping a supply of iffy ethanol gas ain't a good plan either.
So once it hits the fan, the burden on police, rescue, etc. is enormous. So help with that, it should almost been seen as your civic duty to fend for yourself without their help for a reasonable amount of time. I'd peg that as 5 to 7 days as the goal. You don't want to be the "pathetic loser".
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