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Food, water and other resources would have to be shipped from home, at distances that make the supply frighteningly undependable.

With fueling so expensive and stations so undependable, Kiskis — who lives in Pacific Palisades and works at Google in Playa Vista — drives a gasoline Jeep for everything but short trips around the neighborhood.

"The Sympathizer" warns us that any singular view of a broad-scale event is undependable at best.

Israel’s increasing airstrikes and ground operations in the south have made relief efforts erratic and undependable, the United Nations says, and the enclave is suffering shortages of food, water and medicine.

For rural residents in Eastern Washington, mail can be undependable and a drive to the nearest Kaiser pharmacy in Spokane can be over an hour away.