Posted by Bret4207 on November 17, 2012 at 04:32:05 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: What would you do? posted by Greg1959 on November 16, 2012 at 18:52:07:
IMO, based on actual experience, it will be your neighbors that start on you. I don't mean Bill and Fran at the next farm over, I mean the mutt druggie rat living on welfare in that rental trailer 3 miles over in Skunk Holler, or in the little village or settlement down the road. We had a complete loss of power in January, over 6 million on both sides of the border. Within hours we had looting, thefts, stuff like that. So they put a travel ban and curfew on. The mutts all own ATVs and snowmobiles and they'll even resort to foot. They stole the generator that ran the phone substation. They stole fuel, wood, pretty much whatever they could get to. We had a group of volunteers to watch the new generator at the phone building 24/7. All this was in the first 3 days. I was without power for 15. It got pretty bad after a few more days.
Another town I worked in had a very poor power grid. The lights would often fail for 2-3 hours, say 8-10 times a year. We'd all get called in for looter patrol, especially if it was nighttime. People are animals.
Those who laugh at people considering this stuff need to go through just a shadow of it before you scoff.
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