Can you imagine how you’d exist in a world without any electricity? Consider the following scenario: you walk outside one morning, and realize you’ve overslept because your alarm didn’t go off. In fact, your alarm wasn’t even on, because there doesn’t seem to be power in your neighborhood. But something else is amiss here; there’s a deadly silence in the air. You realize there are no sounds of horns honking or the steady hum of traffic on the roadways nearby… just the distant chattering of frantic voices. You go back inside to call a friend, or a family member, just anyone… but your cell phone won’t turn on either.
If this were you, would you have begun to feel the creeping panic of knowing that the entire world had apparently been shut off, as simply as switching a great master switch? The really frightening thing about this scenario, however, is that it could actually happen.
I’ve harped on this for months now: the notion that catastrophic solar activity, expected to begin increasing by 2013, could endanger not only our electrical infrastructure, but could also potentially threaten existence as we know it. Sure, this might sound like an extreme position to be taking, especially since there are studies that show that many of the harmful effects of EMP–that is, electromagnetic pulse attacks that could occur either as a result of acts of war, terrorism, or those which could occur naturally via the sun–may not completely cripple civilization as we know it. But is this a risk we can safely take?
An Associated Press article recently discussed the potential risks associated with solar storms and their resulting EMP effects, quoting NOAA Assistant Secretary Kathryn Sullivan, who warned that by 2013 Earth could be seeing major climatic changes. Other sources have warned that this could be the case, with the effects ranging from power outages in scattered areas for periods of a few weeks, to even potential lock-downs of the electrical grid spanning most of the world. Over a period of just weeks, in the absence of electricity to furnish refrigeration, power to pump gasoline into cars (at least those vehicles which didn’t contain fragile computer circuitry that may have been compromised), and the ability to communicate with loved ones over distances, the world as we know it could change drastically. Would you be prepared, in the event that such a catastrophe did take place?SOURCE
Please let it be so.
“Can you imagine how you’d exist in a world without any electricity?”
Yes. Those of us who have lived through recent tornadoes in the areas in which we live do it for days at a time. It helps to have some lanterns and a wood stove or to, or a fire pit with a grill. Oh, and a garden and some canned food from last years garden.
Would you be prepared, in the event that such a catastrophe did take place? I did OK here. How about YOU?
I survived Hurricane Katrina only to have the police come and take my guns. If it’s not the weather and cataclysms it’ll be your own police force that does you in.
They won’t get it next time.
I wish on a daily basis for something to happen that wipes out all the scum… I am sick of this world and all the undeserving types that live in it.
Without electricity, cities would turn into blood-baths where neighbors would stab each other in the eye with a fork just to get the last of the food supply. The dwindling mammals throughout the world would be hunted for food and become extinct within a year or two. All of the nuclear power plants would melt down almost simultaneously, along with other toxic chemical plants. It probably wouldn’t take more than a couple years for ninety nine percent of the species on this world to become extinct.
This would not have been an issue one hundred years ago. Now that every aspect of our lives depends on electricity, from food to sanitation and transportation, we would be more inept at survival than cave men in the stone age. I don’t think most people realize how completely dependent we are on electricity. Living off the grid is not much help, because if the toxic waste and radiation don’t kill you, the scavengers probably will. Hopefully we go quickly and leave a few species intact to try again.