re: Power grid goes down Nationwide for a month

Without immediate outside aid, it could potentially end this country for good. The biggest question is do we as a general population know how long the grid is down, know why it went down, and do we have any faith in it being restored in a timely manner? If we don’t know the answers to those questions then chaos and panic would start immediately. We are such fricking pussies now, look at the lessons we just learned during covid. Every man will be for himself and his immediate family and cults and clicks will form immediately, if there is actually a means to transport and assemble. Look at how fast people lost their shite over Covid and panic bought toilet paper. Now apply that mindset to water and food. I would bet that of the approximate 350 mil people in this country, 340-345 could not function for one week without power. That’s due to lack of preparedness (guilty), lack of knowledge, lack of resources and lack of resourcefulness. How many people do you know can start a fire without some type of fire starting aid? I know maybe 5-6 including myself. How long would it take the average household to run of out water on hand? No water is coming out of your pipes. Most people have a fairly stocked pantry that can supply their immediate family for a few months, but that is assuming there is a way to cook food without using gas or electricity. It would absolutely be vastly more beneficial for this to happen in the winter rather than the summer because most people would be able to preserve whatever frozen food they have in their freezer by keeping it outsdie whereas in the summer that’s gone after 36 hours or so and only if you don’t open the doors at all.

This also means there is no law and order. Martial law will take place immediately. Panic riots will start and looting at grocery stores within 24 hours will get deadly violent. Without any communication from government (and even if there was communication from our government, could you trust it?? Again, see Covid) and people being left in the dark, fear and anxiety would resort to people being savage and prey on the weak almost immediately.

If this is an isolated event to only our Nation (aka China shuts down our grid) then we will be invaded while we are weak. The only thing to stop it would be our allies and this would immediately lead to WWIII. We have too many resources within our military with communications and firepower to allow ourselves to be invaded, but if there ever was a time it would be where there is anarchy and chaos amongst our entire nation.

Someone mentioned Katrina in a tongue and cheek comment earlier in this thread, but read “No Ordinary Heroes” by Dr. Demaree Inglese. That happened in less than a week. Now apply that to the entire country.

Bunch of stored food and booze
Acreage
well with pump on solar power
pond
Argentinian cheerleaders
in July

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Being in Louisiana; I would prefer January. Sure, it could be cold but most likely nothing major that lots of blankets couldn’t help with.

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It would be cold for a week and a half then unseasonable warm for 7 days after then rain for about 4 days straight then wake up one day in the 70s and by noon it will be in the 40s.

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Backup generators would be useless.

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What? Some of us have enough propane to run generator for months non stop. I also picked up the little 500W yeti goal zero, highly recommend it, nice to have during small outages. Already have whole house water filtration system with UV filter. Easily have 3-4 months food at all times. My next door neighbor owns a gun store in Nashville, he has shooting range in his basement. We have more ammo, long and short range options than anyone coming our way. I stocked up on antibiotics during Covid. Have access to stocked pond as well and the Natchez Trace is my backyard. I think the cities would be ravished, the suburbs would be chaos, and the rural areas would be torn as when it would be acceptable to say I told you so.

Edit - I’d prefer January. The cold would limit travel and lessen the likelihood of me having to fend off city folk

Solar panels an a power wall.

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Rice, beans, guns, bullets

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Might want to rethink the rice and beans as they take too much fuel to cook.

Get oatmeal instead.

Supplies would be the least of your worries. If it happened everywhere it would become survival fittest quite quickly. There is no way you can compare it to a hurricane power outage. Local power outages come with information, supplies, help, and the knowledge it’s temporary. Nationwide power outage comes with mass hysteria, especially in major cities.

Has anyone asked how we’d poop with no wifi?

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Supplies would be the least of your worries.

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So would credit cards, inflation would go through the roof for cash sales.

Everyone would be poor very quickly.