What If America Went Dark?(nytimes.com) |
What If America Went Dark?(nytimes.com) |
It estimates that about 1% of the population [of Phoenix], or 13,250 people, would die, and half the city, or 816,570 people, would be put in emergency rooms if power was completely out for two days, then slowly restored throughout the region over the next three.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2023/06/05/study-phoenix-face...
I had about half a tank and remember just heading west, hoping I hit an area with power before I ran out of gas… thankfully I did.
I know of multiple people in the TX hill country with thousands of gallons of buried propane on site and brand new generators waiting to be fired up for the very first time. If the weather is mild, most of these people could go two solid months before refueling.
I assume that region also has a lot of people without buried propane and generators, but who do have lots and lots and lots of guns.
I think a lot of survivalist planning seems to forget that few of us live somewhere so far out that we don't need to account for our neighbors actions.
I grew up 45 minutes away from Boston and all of the neighbors had standby generators. Even more have wood stoves. Water is abundant. Actually a lot of the old houses were built pre electrification or shortly after so there’s no limit to how long you could survive without the grid.
WTF NYT?