You are so right.

I remember after the Northridge earthquake the same thing happened in our town.

No power so most stores closed. Water was contaminated due to broken sewer/water lines. Lucky we had bottled water at home.

One good thing, we found that the Pizza Man store was open without power, (still had gas), we got a large with everything on it. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Power came back on after a couple of days. Couldn't drink the tap water for weeks until they flushed the system out, but you could use the toilet and take a shower. (If you didn't mind the smell <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />)