Be prepared.
If you abosolutely cannot live without a freezer, buy a propane gas cooled freezer - they have no moving parts and use NO electricity. They cool using about 3/4 of a gallon propane a month. If you have a 120 gallon propane tank, that is a lot of years usage. There also exists propane gas cooled refrigerators.
Buy solar panels to recharge batteries for use in home, low-voltage lighting. The energy is free. You must buy a lot of batteries, though, as they wear out.
For you who haven't even started prepping, get busy.
Ping - this is REALLY important!
For those who live on farms that have oil wells on them, should one be building a makeshift distillation tower to refine your own gas from the oil, because the energy company is probably not going to be able to get to the gas after all their trucks fail...
Just curious on this because I have family members who live on farms with oil wells on them and if this sorta collapse were to happen the wells would be fine as the well motors run on waste gas and use simple electronics that are EMP resistant.
Couldn’t a distillation tower be made out of a vertical pipe with several outlets at different heights?
Would be useful maybe to making your own fuel to power tractors and simple farm machinery....
Aaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, oh sh-t.
A bit mathematically challenged is the author? if each step is 10 times more powerful, that would be a [cue Sagan] billion times more powerful. "Thousands" indeed.
Why is it that we are only informed about these potentially earth shattering events after the fact?
Store and roatate.
Store what you eat, and eat what you store.
I’m not concerned. My tin foil hat will protect me!
Welcome to Detroit!
Technically I don’t believe we will ever go back to the Stone Age. This is due to the fact that we have the knowledge and education (some of us) to rebuild. It would take time but we would rebuild.