Interesting vid on grid collapse scenario

3 minutes without air
3 hours due to extreme exposure
3 days without water
3 weeks without food

3 nanoseconds before someone would skin their own grandmother for internet or other things
 
1911gobang said:
That’s an excellent basic explanation. I’d be interested to know the percentage of people who can’t even grasp this concept…
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Think about the percentage of people who panic buy at the grocery store as the ice and snow starts falling. Or ran out and panic bought toilet paper or anything else in the last couple years. Those are the people who don’t grasp it
 
I fully believe this is what will happen when WWIII hits our shores. Our grid has been insanely vulnerable for decades, but especially since they became connected to anything web based. Same goes for oil and gas lines.
 
Jayne said:
grandmas contain exactly 0% internet by volume, we should spread that fact around before gen Z gets any dumb ideas.
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I got a bunch of plump juicy ones near me that might make a fine chopped bbq.
 
Burt Gummer said:
Think about the percentage of people who panic buy at the grocery store as the ice and snow starts falling. Or ran out and panic bought toilet paper or anything else in the last couple years. Those are the people who don’t grasp it
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Or they could be like me, and it always seems that as a winter storm is approaching that is when I just so happen to be running low on bread and milk. Go figure.
 
noway2 said:
Or they could be like me, and it always seems that as a winter storm is approaching that is when I just so happen to be running low on bread and milk. Go figure.
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That was me, once, years ago when we had a young one. Ran out of milk and bread in the morning, planned on stopping on the way home from work. During the day a snowstorm hit. Had no choice but to go to Food Lion. I felt so stupid and so foolish waiting in that damn line. Promised myself we'd never be in that situation again. So far we haven't.

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NCMedic said:
3 minutes without air
3 hours due to extreme exposure
3 days without water
3 weeks without food

3 nanoseconds before someone would skin their own grandmother for internet or other things
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Agree 100%.

“Civilization” is only a veneer…and it is a thin one. If folks will trample one another over a television that’s a few dollars cheaper than it was the day before Thanksgiving, throw hands over a pack of TP or lose their shite when their phone doesn’t get internet service, they will do far worse with a 3-day empty belly.

People do the damn-damn to others now over stuff that isn’t necessary to sustain life.

We haven’t seen the true depths of ruthlessness on a large scale yet, but we will.
 
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Dale Gribble said:
We haven’t seen the true depths of ruthlessness on a large scale yet, but we will.
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My wife still doesn't carry, but i'm trying to get her more used to it. for now, i'm settling for getting her to put a keltec .32 in her fanny pack when she goes on a walking track. it's a public track, but at least it has high visibility so there shouldn't be much crime.
then again, somebody went and busted out the glass on the little "lending library" stand they have there, and nobody knew nothing. so quick random crime for absolutely no reason is always a possibility.
 
That video was a good find and I agree it just scratches the surface of the potential problem.

If you want a good what if (fiction) scenario read "One Second After" by William Forstchen. Not sure if the Afterword is included in all copies of the book, but my hardback has it. This short read at the back of the book by Captain Bill Sanders, USN lays out how dangerous an EMP is and how the report delivered to Congress on EMPs released the exact same day as the 9/11 Commission's report and was overshadowed.
 
one second after was written before smartphones, etc.
essentially, electricity is current life. none is death.
 
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