What Seiji wanted to know was what many other people wanted to know right now.
For a major city's entire electrical system as well as communications system to stop working was a huge incident!
Although important places still had working sources of backup power that could be temporarily used, it would be a lot more difficult to recover the communication system.
And, just to give some basic examples of the consequences from being unable to contact anyone: nobody would be able to call for an ambulance in an emergency, or call the police in an event of a crime, or call the fire department in case of a fire… People could die!
Why did all this happen? Did their city receive an EMP attack? From where!?
All the public officials, electric company employees, and communications company employees… various personnel in these fields all worked overtime to deal with this disaster.
