Originally Posted by Happy_Camper
Originally Posted by wabigoon
Things will get grim fast. No electric power, no food shipped, no mail, no internet, no fuels shipped. No nothing.
We can get by for a while with our stockpiles, but.

I can see why you would bring this up now considering all that Texas went through the other week.
That was something similar in nature and makes one pause to reconsider their trust in the grid.


it was a short 70 years ago that the rural emc's ran electiricity in our community. had enough power for one light bulb in each room, plus enough to pull a frigidaire.

wood heat, drawed water from a well. an electric clothes iron came later. and then it all began. and here we are now. every room in the house like grand central station.