Scenario: Your power goes out. You wait several hours expecting to see a light flickering soon. Still nothing. Phone battery going dead. Next day still nothing and no word on the problem or expected time of fix...and phone is dead. Folks are starting to mill about and talk with neighbors looking for any update, but all are in the same boat. Second day with no power or water really sucks. No idea how widespread the outage is. Somebody better do something soon. No gas, power, stores...folks are getting hungry, dirty and antsy. 30 days and it's clear no one is coming, and the power isn't coming back on...it's survival of the best armed...
Scenario: Your power goes out. You wait several hours expecting to see a light flickering soon. Still nothing. Phone battery going dead. Next day still nothing and no word on the problem or expected time of fix...and phone is dead. Folks are starting to mill about and talk with neighbors looking for any update, but all are in the same boat. Second day with no power or water really sucks. No idea how widespread the outage is. Somebody better do something soon. No gas, power, stores...folks are getting hungry, dirty and antsy. 30 days and it's clear no one is coming, and the power isn't coming back on...it's survival of the best armed...