Here's What Happens When You Go Without Power For Seven Days
People Are Going to Be Your Biggest Problem. More People, More Problems.
I don’t know if you’ve ever lived through a major power outage, but I have. I live in a hurricane zone, so I guess it’s no surprise that I would end up suffering through a hurricane sometime. The one I got wasn’t one of the big, sexy ones which brought in FEMA agents and lots of non-profit agencies to help us recover, but it was bad enough that it took a week for our power to get back on, so we could put our lives back together.
You don’t really realize how much you need electric power, until you are left without it. As a society, we are addicted to electricity. Pretty much everything we do uses electricity in one way or another, even activities which we think aren’t electrified.
Imagine a world where the supply chain crumbles and the grid goes down. For most of us, it would be a catastrophe.
But for these people, it’s just another day.
In an emergency, you can only survive as long as your food does. Luckily, building a stockpile is…