thats with aid being shipped in though, in a mass outage across the country is where the damage gets done because there isnt enough help, no running water, no heat, no AC, for people in cities especially you wont have any way to cook food really, and no restaurants to go to
Our public water system uses natural pressure, no electricity required. . It rains here year round, also, and there are numerous lakes and developed springs in an emergency. I grew up without AC, many still dont have it, its not fatal. Restaurants have already been closed for months in many places, or were. Thats not fatal either. If you have 30 cans of food in your home and a manual canopener, or a good knife, you have enough to survive for a month. If regular markets werent operating our locally farmers would sell their meat, dairy and produce locally and we would all have enough - my state and county both are net exporters of all types of foods. 50% of Americans still live outside of urban areas. The worst part is being in darkness after sunset, but you adjust your hours for sleep quickly.
Some people might not do well, but 90% thats ridiculous. Maybe 5%. Have you never heard of the will to live?
You obviously don't live in a city, where the majority of the population is. Also the water would run but it wouldn't be clean.
Disease would run rampant and the means to cure them would be diminished, no calling emergency services so crime would run rampant. And someone dying would be less likely to get help in time.
Farmers could sell, and probably would to local communities. But they wouldn't be able to help our cities much, nor would they want to because most people will be broke and looking to take by force, and again, more people are in the cities. Whether you can kill more or not means nothing when there is a thousand desperate people for ever 1 farmer.
Most of our lives are based on electricity. People survived for a long time without it but they were used to it, and even with being used to it life expectancy was much shorter.
You are underestimating the massive cascading that the power grid going down would cause, on top of the fact our military would be to busy fending off china's advance to help out
If you can't survive 1 month without electricity, you deserve to die.
(I mean aside from people on electrically powered medical devices, of course.)
It's no water that does 'em in.
7 drops of unscented Clorox per gallon. Let sit at least an hour.
Wait, is this real? Does that work?
The general consensus among the survival tomes, I’ve acquired, and verified by a couple of smart individuals who would know, yes it does.
A teaspoon of plain household bleach per gallon of water of you intend to drink it. A tablespoon if you intend to use it to sanitise equipment.
My household went without electricity for 4 weeks after a tornado. Along with 100s of others. Some had no power for 2 months. We were all fine.
thats with aid being shipped in though, in a mass outage across the country is where the damage gets done because there isnt enough help, no running water, no heat, no AC, for people in cities especially you wont have any way to cook food really, and no restaurants to go to
Our public water system uses natural pressure, no electricity required. . It rains here year round, also, and there are numerous lakes and developed springs in an emergency. I grew up without AC, many still dont have it, its not fatal. Restaurants have already been closed for months in many places, or were. Thats not fatal either. If you have 30 cans of food in your home and a manual canopener, or a good knife, you have enough to survive for a month. If regular markets werent operating our locally farmers would sell their meat, dairy and produce locally and we would all have enough - my state and county both are net exporters of all types of foods. 50% of Americans still live outside of urban areas. The worst part is being in darkness after sunset, but you adjust your hours for sleep quickly. Some people might not do well, but 90% thats ridiculous. Maybe 5%. Have you never heard of the will to live?
You obviously don't live in a city, where the majority of the population is. Also the water would run but it wouldn't be clean.
Disease would run rampant and the means to cure them would be diminished, no calling emergency services so crime would run rampant. And someone dying would be less likely to get help in time.
Farmers could sell, and probably would to local communities. But they wouldn't be able to help our cities much, nor would they want to because most people will be broke and looking to take by force, and again, more people are in the cities. Whether you can kill more or not means nothing when there is a thousand desperate people for ever 1 farmer.
Most of our lives are based on electricity. People survived for a long time without it but they were used to it, and even with being used to it life expectancy was much shorter.
You are underestimating the massive cascading that the power grid going down would cause, on top of the fact our military would be to busy fending off china's advance to help out