Do any of you think electricity will go out?

Gaer

Gaer

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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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no. But I bought a generator a couple years ago, and I've used it once (about 6 hours). It will run the refrigerator and t.v.

A bad storm or wind storm could knot out a tree somewhere, but other than that I don't want to worry about anything else for awhile.
 
Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

I have some concerns over that happening so I've been gradually shifting some of my purchases to shelf-stable foods that can be stored and eaten without refrigeration or cooking.

We could experience a power outage due to a storm or an equipment malfunction in our home.

If I don't lose power nothing is lost I can gradually work those shelf-stable foods into my normal routine later in the year.
 
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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Honestly I have thought and worried about this happening. I pray it doesn't but anything is possible.
 
AnnieA said:
May take longer to get power restored depending on your location. Rural people are the last to get restored and that's with linemen coming in from other areas when there are widespread outages due to hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms etc.
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Well frankly I'm sure it takes a while during those conditions to restore power anyway so, I doubt this I will have that much impact on it.
 
Loss of electricity is one of the most disruptive events in today's world. If it's just a few hours, that is usually just an inconvenience, but if it stretches for days, it can quickly become a major problem. If the entire nations electrical grid were to suddenly go down, for days, we could All kiss society, and life as we know it, goodbye. Such an event, in today's world, would quickly become worse than this Coronavirus.
 
Don M. said:
Loss of electricity is one of the most disruptive events in today's world. If it's just a few hours, that is usually just an inconvenience, but if it stretches for days, it can quickly become a major problem. If the entire nations electrical grid were to suddenly go down, for days, we could All kiss society, and life as we know it, goodbye. Such an event, in today's world, would quickly become worse than this Coronavirus.
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That is the terrifying truth. In 2008, Hurricane Ike hit Houston and we were without power for TWO HORRIBLE WEEKS. It was early September, and temperatures were in the high 90s with matching oppressive humidity. I have never in my entire life been as miserable--in the sauna-like heat all day, in the pitch dark at night, mosquitoes buzzing. No lights, no air conditioning, no internet, no TV, no NOTHING except rotting food in the freezer, a big mess of limbs and debris in the yard, and the backyard fence blown down.

Thankfully we still had water, so a cold shower was the only respite, but we'd be sweaty again as soon as we got dressed. I hope to never experience that again. By the end of the second week, tempers were beginning to boil over. Some areas of the city were without power for 3 weeks or longer.

So as I think back about that time, being "self-isolated" in my comfortable home with plenty of food, entertainment, and AIR CONDITIONING isn't so bad at all.
 
MarciKS said:
Well frankly I'm sure it takes a while during those conditions to restore power anyway so, I doubt this I will have that much impact on it.
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The impact would be the lack of outsiders pouring in to help. Usually there's a disaster area and a huge, untouched rest of the nation many of whom rush to help. Now that Covid-19 is widespread, I'm doubting that power companies will send linemen great distances to help an impacted area.
 
C'est Moi said:
That is the terrifying truth. In 2008, Hurricane Ike hit Houston and we were without power for TWO HORRIBLE WEEKS. It was early September, and temperatures were in the high 90s with matching oppressive humidity. I have never in my entire life been as miserable--in the sauna-like heat all day, in the pitch dark at night, mosquitoes buzzing. No lights, no air conditioning, no internet, no TV, no NOTHING except rotting food in the freezer, a big mess of limbs and debris in the yard, and the backyard fence blown down.

Thankfully we still had water, so a cold shower was the only respite, but we'd be sweaty again as soon as we got dressed. I hope to never experience that again. By the end of the second week, tempers were beginning to boil over. Some areas of the city were without power for 3 weeks or longer.

So as I think back about that time, being "self-isolated" in my comfortable home with plenty of food, entertainment, and AIR CONDITIONING isn't so bad at all.
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My sister in the Jackson MS metro area and my parents a 100 miles north of there were out two weeks post Katrina. It was August and awful, but they did have generators to keep fridges and freezers running. I lived in the north most part of the state in the Memphis burbs and kept power but more than 80% of the state was without power for at least a week. But those poor people who survived landfall on the Mississippi Gulf would've traded their circumstances for two weeks of power outage in a heartbeat.

We've ordered a lot of small battery powered fans since then and when I learned about the virus in China in January, I bought a solar generator to add to the gasoline ones. Just because we have a pandemic doesn't mean we won't have tornadoes as well...
 

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