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Reality Checks for a Grid Down Scenario, By Blueleader
I sometimes hear misguided individuals who repeat the statement going around
that if the grid goes down we will be thrown back to the days before
electricity: The 1880s. The prevalent thought is that folks back then did fine
so it wouldn’t be so bad for us to simply revert to that level of technology.
Well, what if we examine your day in a post grid failure scenario? Here is a
reality check for you to consider:
Let us say you get up ‘the day after’ and you’re cold. Bummer. Well,
in the 1880s if you got up and you were cold you would simply grab an armload
of firewood from the neatly stacked woodpile out in the back yard and…wait a
minute. You probably do not have a neatly stacked, or any other kind of wood
pile out in your back yard. You, likewise, probably do not have the axes and
hand saws or knowledge necessary for you to fell a dead-standing tree and
crosscut, haul, split, and stack the wood. Nor, for that matter do you have a stand of timber at your disposal just waiting for your felling ax, crosscut saw and splitting maul. Also, I’ll bet you do not have a horse-drawn wagon to put the wood in, or a team of sturdy horses to pull your wagon in from the timber…but, for the sake of argument, let us say that you do. So you bring your armload of wood in to your house and before long you have a raging fire going in the sturdywoodstove in the livingroom…but, wait a minute. You most likely do not already have a stove to keep you and your post-apocalyptic family’s collective rear ends warm. Sorry.
But let’s say you do have the aforementioned.
Reboot. You get up ‘the day after’ and you’re a little hungry.Wouldn’t it be great to have some of those delicious biscuits and gravy just like your Grandma used to make?
Do you have any flour or a stockpile of mold-free winter wheat to grind into flour? How about a grain mill to grind that wheat into flour? How about a tin of indispensable leftover bacon fat sitting on the stove like it always was in my mom’s kitchen when I was growing up? Got salt or access to a salt mine?Or, here we go again, a specializedkitchen wood cookstove with a crackling fire going just waiting for the baking?
Probably not, but let’s assume you do.
While we have the fire going, wouldn’t a big juicy steak with all of the fixin’s for you and your family sound tasty in the TEOTWAWKI scenario we are discussing? How about beef? Y’ain’t got none. I guess you could slide on down to the Piggly Wiggly but the meat department is dark and all that remains in the cooler are rotting scraps contaminated by the riotous panic of ‘broken door shoppers’. It is a mess and a dangerous place to be.
But that is okay.
Source: http://survivalblog.com/reality-checks-for-a-grid-down-scenario-by-blueleader/
