Millions would die due to exposure and panic, looting and so on. Most of the USA is grossly ill prepared for a true extended outage. A planned outage won’t happen. Unplanned-still very possible.
Scenarios in an emp attack expect 90%! of our population to die.
But that's the figure in government reports from years ago. Without electricity, the stores close down. Deliveries stop, and groceries stores quickly empty. Without traffic lights, the cities turn into parking lots. If the city people try to march out into the countryside, there will be countless cases of lead poisoning.
Honestly I doubt they would literally blackout the entire us. What would be the point in that? Cities where people are held sure
You can shut down telecom for internet etc - id say the most important thing to have out be CASH
hmm, I had always taken it to be a communications blackout
same - that means credit cards wont communicate - stores will still take cash
Millions would die due to exposure and panic, looting and so on. Most of the USA is grossly ill prepared for a true extended outage. A planned outage won’t happen. Unplanned-still very possible.
Scenarios in an emp attack expect 90%! of our population to die.
90% is a bit drastic
But that's the figure in government reports from years ago. Without electricity, the stores close down. Deliveries stop, and groceries stores quickly empty. Without traffic lights, the cities turn into parking lots. If the city people try to march out into the countryside, there will be countless cases of lead poisoning.