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I wouldn't assume the pumps moving that gas would keep working for an extended outage. If an outage lasts that long, it's usually over a big area.
In the last 15 years, my electricity has been out for 10+ DAYS three different times. Gas doesn't stop.
In fact, 2 out of 3 homes in the neighborhood have Kohler style natural gas whole house generators.
There's plenty of reasons to hate gas, but that ain't one.
They should've run the electricity wires next to the gas wires, i.e. buried.
The reason you were down voted was in the first paragraph of the article - including breakdowns that can last for months at a time
Surely someone's got an example of natural gas service failing during an electric outage?
Not really. The problem isn't that gas is somehow unreliable, it's actually that gas doesn't scale at all. It's a massive expensive infrastructure change and it's not flexible - you need gas. Electrical stoves can be powered by solar, wind, propane, etc; gas only works on gas.
Congratulations! Now run the piping for gas to every apartment in a major city. Do it for the same budget as battery induction cooktops. Then we'll talk.