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As it turned out (after four floors upwards on ramps), the restaurant was completely out of commission. While they still had gass to cook, no light made the kitchen inoperable and the beverage dispenser were out of commission as well. So we went four floors down again.

At that point I presented my opinion that we would be dealing with hours of outage. Small outages can usually be fixed quickly, but nation wide is a totally different game. I said that I would be very happy, if we had electricity before sundown. I recommended to my hosts to make their way home as traffic would not get better and that I needed not to be taken care of. My hotel was about a mile away from the restaurant so we split up. This was about 13:30.

At that point I started some actions of my own:

• Phone was set to power saving mode and brightness reduced to "barely legible"
• At the next open stoor I bought non-alcoholic drinks and food to get me through two days
• I asked my colleagues in the SOC to go to an higher alert level

I am kind of a pessimist in such things...

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