People rioted, burned down cities, and killed people over a trial verdict they didn't like. Now imagine the chaos over the goods in your area's last generator-powered grocery, when no one has had anything but rotted food in a dead fridge for three weeks.
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Anything run on electric is long dead. The last of the fossil fuels has gone to the few remaining hospitals still holding out. You're down to opening cans and scarfing down cold pork n' beans in the dark, trying to figure out how to communicate with friends and relatives.
Your phone's worthless, your internet's dead, your tv nothing more than a picture of midnight on the wall. You have no idea what's happening anywhere else, only that your entire area is still and silent, and nothing is being done to turn anything back on.
The food that hasn't gone bad in your fridge and freezer is dwindling, but local stores aren't restocking, and now they're running out too. People are fighting over the last can of Vienna sausages in empty aisles, and shots ring out over the last drops of fuel at the gas station.
If you're out in rural areas, one by one you hear your neighbors' generators sputter and die. If you're a prepper and do a lot of canning and preserving, you'll last longer than most. If you're in the city, it'll get pretty grim as soon as the stores run out of food.
Emergency response? Good luck. They're far too busy. They're dealing with houses burning because someone tried to heat a can of Spaghetti-Os with a candle in the dark. And how would they know anyway? Can't call anything in. Can't do anything but walk there yourself to tell them.
In summer it would be bad enough. In winter? Better hope you live someplace warm, and you can figure out how to grow food into maturity overnight. We already hear of elderly folks who freeze to death in the winter because they couldn't pay the electricity.
Now imagine a population of 330,000,000 facing the same situation. But with dwindling food supplies, with no means of transportation, and with no way to communicate besides face to face.
Yes, the grid would be rebuilt, but not before a lot of people died before it happened.
Yes, the grid would be rebuilt, but not before a lot of people died before it happened.
People who think civilization wouldn't burn in the event of total power failure haven't thought it through much.
Preppers have. Preppers are prepared. Be prepared.
Preppers have. Preppers are prepared. Be prepared.
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