A little while ago we had a state wide power outage and after a few hours even the cell towers were gone (there may have been some reserve for emergency calls o

A little while ago we had a state wide power outage and after a few hours even the cell towers were gone (there may have been some reserve for emergency calls on other networks). I can't remember if it was this incident or another one short after that left me without power for 3 days in a first world country that wasn't hit with a large natural disaster. After this the local government quickly made changes so these days it isn't so bad. One of the improvements is a massive battery backup system owned by Tesla which is able to smooth power supply when there are unexpected spikes in demand or a power station goes offline. Its kind of weird sitting in the dark with absolutely no communication ability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout