We often discuss this very subject amongst ourselves
We often discuss this very subject amongst ourselves.....
Terrorists would do more damage by just screwing up our power grid.
If anyone recalls the New York/New Jersey "blackout" of 1965 and the one most recently, perhaps 10 years ago?.........anyone living in tall buildings with elevators (Miami Florida condos?) (hospitals in TV) might be literally stuck......not a pleasant thought. In the heat?
Traffic lights wouldn't work.....thus, gridlock.
Gas pumps wouldn't work.
Our furnaces up north wouldn't work........we'd all freeze to death eventually unless we had alternate sources of heat, such as wood....
Although we could all exist in the dark, we'd not be able to live without our airconditioning in Florida........
And one of the major problems, in my humble opinion, would be that the banks, the supermarkets, computers (online shopping, etc.) would all come to a standstill. Business, in general, would stop. Banking and commerce would cease.
Talk about the stock market.
Does anyone remember the days when a "grocer" could tally up the purchase on the back of the brown paper bag????
Can you imagine a supermarket clerk doing that with large orders; people growing impatient in the long lines?
Plus, we'd all go nuts without being "connected"......
Having lived most of our lives in the northeast, and especially since the non existent Y2K in 1999, we and all of our friends and neighbors, family.... have habitually stocked up on foods and water, toilet paper and the like........to get us through the long cold winters up here......it's nice not to have to go out and shop when one has several full freezers and a totally packed pantry. Planning ahead is the key to a well stocked larder.
However, in Florida, the freezers wouldn't survive without electric. Up here, we could roll it out into the snow and cold frozen tundra we've just lived through.
In the summer months, someone would have to fish and hunt.
Perhaps "go back to the land" and grow veggies.....
It could all be done, manually......but life as we know it, and life as we prefer it, would no longer exist.
Imagine no gasoline? How would the pumps work without electricity?
Medical "machines" would stop. What about folks on dialysis or life support of some type. If one really thinks about it .......
war is not necessary to overcome........it can be done with lack of electricity.
One day without telephone service, computers, television, and all the creature comforts that our power grid supplies......unimaginable.
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