I did indeed fear the worst, and did a WWIII top-up shop to add some extra essentials to my usual disaster prep. Luckily not needed, but an interesting experie

I did indeed fear the worst, and did a WWIII top-up shop to add some extra essentials to my usual disaster prep. Luckily not needed, but an interesting experience. We were pretty lucky here. The local big box was running on emergency power from its solar roof, and ATMs and card payments were still working - much to my surprise. Smaller stores were taking cash and the larger smaller stores were limiting access and sending customers around individually with staff with torches. A lot of people were obviously prep-shopping, but it was controlled and pretty relaxed. I even had 5G of a sort - intermittent and slow, but I could just about keep up with news updates. In the end it was a 12 hour blackout, which was more of a major inconvenience than the catastrophe that would have happened if it had taken days.