“You didn’t hear much from us. Because most of us were without power for 6 weeks or longer. That includes cell phone coverage where I was as well.”
And yet you made it...
“How, exactly, do you propose to keep 300 million people provided with clean water, or even clean food in any sort of timely manner.”
Only the leaches in the big city need to be “provided” with stuff, and they would have a tough time. Most of the RED counties in this country can take care of themselves.
Do most of the RED counties have water sanitation systems that run without electricity?
I lived in RED county suburbia for years. Nobody had their own water well. Few people had a fireplace. Surface water was MILES away. After 3 days it gets dicey with no clean water.
Suburban So MS and La prepped for Katrina. We knew she was coming. We know what to do in case of hurricanes. We were self sufficient long enough after Katrina that we made it.
How many homes in RED county suburbia do you think have even a weeks worth of food and water? How much of their food needs refrigeration? Oops, no fridges!
Do most of the RED counties have hospitals that can operate without key equipment or supplies? Don’t get sick!
Do most of the RED counties have grocery stores that stock themselves? How many grocery warehouses are located in the suburbs immediately around large metro areas? Hint: most of them.
Do you think your RED county neighbors ALL have a years supply of both clean water, food and a means to heat their homes in the winter?
Do you think all the populations in the blue cities will just stay put and starve?
Most of RED county infrastructure goes through cities. Your comms would be down, probably forever, if the cities burned to the ground.
Along with the people who run and maintain the bigger grid components.
You might be alive. But, to coin a phrase from Lucifer’s Hammer, you’d not ‘Control the Lightening’ for decades.
Imagine our 30 biggest cities in riots worse than post Rodney King or MLK, and going downhill from there.
What happens to our economy when suburban commuters can't and won't travel into the cities?
There are not enough police, feds, military etc to quell 30 major city-wide riots that get worse and worse each day as starvation turns to rage.
When the music stops: how America's cities may explode in violence