Panic over loss of power for 30 minutes? Around here, people that need electricity (hospital, ill homebound etc have back up generators). Wonder what they would do if they were without power for 2 weeks?
Having lived in Germany for 13 years now...I can attest to the fact that they all have expectations of 24-hours per day of power. Any outage lasting longer than 20 minutes becomes a major stress issue for a German. They all want explanations out of the power folks for a 1-hour outage or more...so it becomes a public relations nightmare when huge windstorms come through and knock alot of power out.