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there's almost always going to be VMC somewhere within a 100 NM radius of your location.
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You must not live in the Northwest.
Sixpack will hopefully excuse me for not answering #1 :-)
#2: Probably land in the best place I could find while I still had some power. If ATC has decent radar coverage, they could vector you down pretty close to the ground.