Do power black-outs increase my chances of dying?

Do power black-outs increase my chances of dying?

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We're so dependant on electrical power to run everything that we have that when an interrupted electrical surge occurs - either a massive blackout or even within a smaller area - stastically it's proven that five people die when power is off for more than 3 hours at a time. This doesn't occur in most hospitals nowadays have backup generators if they're in the middle of an operation, but elevators that stop, traffic lights that no longer function. Any time the power goes off has nothing to do with the power itself, but that we're so accustomed to relying on it that that amount of people die every 3 hours that the power is off due to lack of electricity.