Do any of you think electricity will go out?

I love the electric company's estimates. Power goes out at 2:30 AM? It's a cheery 3 hour wait. However, if dawn breaks and the power is still out, the estimate changes to a heart dropping 11 PM. Of course the power can come on at any time in between but the electric company won't tell you that.

Meanwhile the two nosy neighbor women are having a heart attack because their frozen food is thawing. They need to quit checking on it every five minutes but no use me telling them that. Anyway I'm having my own anxiety-ridden day. No running water is what drives me up a wall. You dear ones who can afford to have and run a generator can go pound sand.
 

Gary O is original poster said:
Nationwide power failure due to an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) If a nuclear bomb is detonated above the atmosphere, the energy from the detonation creates an electrosmatic pulse that fries electronics below the atmosphere. There's no radiation fallout or physical bomb damage, but total electrical failure. Some of the huge transformers that would fry take two years to manufacturer and we have none in reserve. Not even sure that we have the ability to make them in the US anymore even if factories had power to run machinery which they wouldn't.
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Haven't read the book, but the threat of EMP attacks is very real. Maybe we can move in with Gary O ? It will be a long walk, since almost all forms of transportation will be disabled... http://www.empcommission.org/
https://thehill.com/opinion/technol...emp-attack-which-we-pioneered-nearly-60-years


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AnnieA said:
That's the worst! Hope yours comes on soon!

Now they're saying possibly Friday for us for power restoration but we do still have water. Parent's hot water heater is propane, Thank God!
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At least I could make toast on the top of the gas stove. It tasted so much better than toaster toast, I want to have it every day, but it's not very healthy and two slices would never be enough. Haha.
 
We have a whole house generator....When "Sandy" in New Jersey, we had a bad Hurricaine….Many homes were gone near the Ocean...
We were the only one's who had a generator on our block...Our neighbor then bought a small generator for his food....
People were without power for a week and a half...In our town....My son and family came to our home, they didn't have a generator...
That generator did service all of our home....This year we had it overhauled...
 
I thought about this but I don't think it will come to that. Lordy...I hope not! I don't have one of those big freezers. I feel sorry for people who have them then lose power and lose a lot of money, especially meat eaters. I have a regular sized fridge, the freezer is packed and I would hate to lose any of that food. The power went out in my neighborhood for almost a week during Hurricane Sandy but I was able to store food in a family member's freezer because he had room.
 
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No, I don't think so. My nephew works for hydro & he is pretty busy. There is a lot of fear mongering out there in the media. It is the media that is scaring the "bejesus" out of some people. Saw a story here in Canada that groceries might be in short supply, there might be no hydro & we will be running out of pharmacy medicines. Ya, ya. It's stories like this that cause some people to hoard. The media quotes an "unnamed federal employee" for this information but says that this person does not wish to be named. What a bunch of baloney! The stores here are all well stocked. The only problem are the long lines to get in because of this "social distancing". I refuse to stand in line for 1/2 hour behind someone either vaping or starring at their smartphones so I usually turn my car around & go home. How do I live? Easy! I shop Amazon for all sorts of things & I go grocery shopping at 7 am on Monday morning when there might be only 7 or 8 other seniors shopping. At home I don't read scare mongering stories about doom days.
 
Packerjohn said:
No, I don't think so. My nephew works for hydro & he is pretty busy. There is a lot of fear mongering out there in the media. It is the media that is scaring the "bejesus" out of some people. Saw a story here in Canada that groceries might be in short supply, there might be no hydro & we will be running out of pharmacy medicines. Ya, ya. It's stories like this that cause some people to hoard. The media quotes an "unnamed federal employee" for this information but says that this person does not wish to be named. What a bunch of baloney! The stores here are all well stocked. The only problem are the long lines to get in because of this "social distancing". I refuse to stand in line for 1/2 hour behind someone either vaping or starring at their smartphones so I usually turn my car around & go home. How do I live? Easy! I shop Amazon for all sorts of things & I go grocery shopping at 7 am on Monday morning when there might be only 7 or 8 other seniors shopping. At home I don't read scare mongering stories about doom days.
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Your a wise man in this regard.
 
Gaer said:
Do you think it will ever come to the point where utilities as water and electricity will cease? All the food in the freezer will have to be eaten in a day! Do any of you think it will ever come to that?
If there isn't any man power left to keep these going; if the worst happens, could this be a possibility?
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Everything is out of man's control with this pandemic, we should all prepare for worse case scenarios. Years ago, my exH and I were talking about EMP (electromagnetic pulse) disaster and how to prepare for it, but the trickle effects of this pandemic is far worse than any disaster in the past.

Anything is possible, we should be prepared.
 
As someone who works for an electric utility I can tell you that, no, your electricity will NOT go off because of corona virus. We are an essential service and as such we have put measures in place that will guarantee your lights keep coming on. That goes for electric companies nationwide.

Now if your power goes off temporarily, that could be caused by numerous things: a car hitting a transformer, downed lines from storm or wind damage, etc. Even critters can cause a power outage. We know how critical electric power is and we take it very seriously.đź’ˇ
 
Uptosnuff said:
As someone who works for an electric utility I can tell you that, no, your electricity will NOT go off because of corona virus. We are an essential service and as such we have put measures in place that will guarantee your lights keep coming on. That goes for electric companies nationwide.

Now if your power goes off temporarily, that could be caused by numerous things: a car hitting a transformer, downed lines from storm or wind damage, etc. Even critters can cause a power outage. We know how critical electric power is and we take it very seriously.đź’ˇ
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Ours went off Sunday due to storms and we just got back on line yesterday. Before the storms rolled through, the company said that due to the Covid-19 procedures they'd implemented such as one person per vehicle etc, that restoration would take longer and that's exactly what happened. Non-tornadic storm damage like we had Sunday usually takes 24-48 hours max for restoration.
 

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