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Showers bite the worst for me. Lights. You get a torch, Food,you eat at the pub.
But cold showers suck.
Has there been a tangible threat to the US power grid?
And when the pub doesn't have power what's your plan?
Has there been a tangible threat to the US power grid? I know Die Hard 4.0 was just a film, but if that could happen, would an open invitation to anarchy.
And when the pub doesn't have power what's your plan?
You didn't follow the link. There have been multiple successful attacks on the power grid, both physical and cyber. The NSA warns that China has the capability to bring our entire grid down.
If it went down for just 10 days the death toll would be in the tens of millions.
We potentially get smashed every year. Worst for me was cyclone ului that put my area out for three weeks. And I rolled up two days after it hit. So the trip to the hardware store was pretty funny when asking for survival gear.
I managed to get a metal bucket that I cooked out of using wood.
Must be quite disconcerting to say the least. A lot would be common sense I guess, but I wonder how many in the UK would be prepared in anyway. Best advice I have always heard is to keep a supply of candles and such like, but not a lot general public training, or thought.
Might be a case of people freezing to death up your way. Don't know if it gets that cold.
But yeah it is mostly the candles and such. A am fm radio is really usefull. No money if it is in the bank,no fuel, those sort of hick ups. Phones of couse die quick. Especially the fancy new ones.
It just depends how far you want to go with preparation for that kind of thing.
On the plus side we don't get a mad looting frenzy every time there is a black out.
Where I am in the UK, there have been a couple of occasions where the electricity has gone off. Unless a person really looks into it, it does not tend to get reported. Where I work, although not for a while, we had a full black out. I would imagine with your weather patterns you would advance warning? In the UK that would be a concern to me in the sense that we do not really adverse conditions to have such things as real bad hurricanes and what not. If we had one of those act of god type situations, really don't the UK would be prepared at all. Probably obvious I suppose. Nice ride BTW.
Thanks.
And I assume that is the point of the thread. To get people thinking about being prepared.