Where would you cash a government check when banks are closed?
Where would you spend it when stores and restaurants have been looted?
The stock market would crater.
Most businesses would cease operations.
Most cell phones would be dead. There would be no internet access for a majority of the population.
Most gas stations would be closed. EV charging stations wouldn’t work.
I’m guessing trash collection would cease.
“Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!”
Understood.
If we actually got caught up in all the possible ways we could expire we’d be paralyzed with fear.
It’s good to try to be prepared, it’s probably impossible to be prepared for everything. Like I posted above, I have a lot of neighbors, coworkers and friends that I have relied on for assistance in the past. It’s a two way street. I like to think in a real time of need we would look out for each other.
Total chaos probably.
Would CC be down though???
The world would be a much better place.
At some stage, you kinda’ need to let it go. I’ve done what I can for my family, and that’s about it. For armageddon scenarios, it’s probably time to shuffle off this mortal coil.
If the world wants to destroy itself, there’s not much we can do, except to make sure that we ensure that everything in our circle of influence prevents that (including, but not limited to, voting for those that will protect these things from happening).
If there is a zombie apocalypse I hope they’re the slow Walking Dead zombies and not the fast, nimble Last of Us ones.
Sounds like law and order, a strong defense, etc. I like it.
No comment necessary.
The CDC has already delineated zombie Apocalypse preparedness Preparedness 101; zombie pandemic
We used to live within the zone of a nuclear power plant. The government provide potassium pills and the schools had evacuation plans. We had to memorize where they would transport the kids etc.
The roads were not built to handle the amount of traffic that would occur if the power plant melted down so I used to joke that I’d just drive TOWARD it instead of away and speed up the inevitable.
That’s one big leap from a pandemic to Armageddon/Apocalypse. Ya, I’ll let others plan for the end of the world, not me.
BTW, we have fruit trees, canned pumpkin and water. And I’m able-bodied. We’ll be fine here.
Based on someone mentioning it here, I read One Second After, which was about how quickly the world deteriorated after an EMP.
Watched the TV series Cobra, in which the first (of two) seasons was about a massive solar flare striking Europe, blowing the electric grid and navigational systems, leaving much of Britain without power and creating social and political chaos.
Scary stuff.
Why do they have to be domestic? 
Thanks for proving my point though. Is the likelihood of that scenario any higher than say a nuclear power facility failing or a category 5 hurricane (in my region of the country) or… insert disaster. Disaster plans for each of these would all be different and no, I’m not going to try and plan for all disasters since inevitably the one that happens will be the one you’re not planned for.
Because they were helpless to do anything else but people look to them something - so they wrote checks.
“An analysis by the FERC reported by the Wall Street Journal in 2014 found that the U.S. could suffer a blackout across the country for weeks or months if saboteurs simultaneously targeted just nine of the 55,0000 substations, threatening the collapse of the entire network.”
Setting slow mode since there are so many flags (and I participated on this thread so can’t moderate).
One thing we have in the house, and I also keep in my truck kit, is paracord. It has come in handy in the course of our everyday lives, but could be useful during a disaster. A 100’ spool should only cost between $6-$10.
A lot of preppers actually like EVs for this because you can be completely off grid with an EV. If you can generate your own electricity be it from solar panels or a small windmill or Microhydropower system then you can charge your car which then acts as a massive battery to run anything. including your fridge. Hard to refine your own gasoline, but you can make your own biodiesel from used cooking oil, but it’s a messier process for sure and takes a lot more raw materials than sunshine, wind, or water flow.
I don’t know about y’all’s families, but my family has long 40 year generations and I am only 1 generation removed from the farm and a microhydropower system like this powered my mom’s side of the family’s water supply. The “Delco” pumped water from the spring up to the house.
My mother-in-law has a mountain house that is surrounded by a creek that would be perfect for a microhydro system in the event of a massive long term power outage. We’d probably need to add a Woodstove back to that house, though. It’s on propane now and would be very cold in the winter if we couldn’t get that.
In our current house we have a Woodstove insert and have cooked meals using it in winter power outages. We were out of power for 36 hours once when the day time highs were below freezing (unusual here in NC). That Woodstove has come in handy more than once.
Our pantry stays pretty well stocked. I don’t keep a disaster bin or anything, but we have eaten out of our pantry during several power outages. We do have a gas grill too.
Oh, we have solar chargers for the phones and solar lights, but we have an EV so we can plug stuff into it during a power outage, too.
My grandfather was born in 1887 and his dad was born in 1836. When my great grandfather was a baby, his father moved the family from Tennessee to Texas to join the fight for independence. Makes history seem more real! I can’t imagine bringing a young family to the frontier.
My dad’s family didn’t have electricity until he was 10 or so.
We were pretty ready for Covid and are not preppers. I was taking a History of Disasters course that spring and sensitized so started buying stuff ahead when others were poo pooing. We had masks from SARS! I bought some iodine pills after Putin attacked Ukraine and shared with kids. Have not needed those. Yet.
But we were caught flat footed when the Texas electrical grid went out. We had our Covid stuff but no generator and no wood to burn. Thankfully my neighbors and I were in touch and helped each other get hold of what we needed—showers, wood, food, etc. We had water when others did not. Would we have stayed so kind in a larger disaster? We did help each other with Covid.
Slow moving zombies, please!
