“A long-term outage owing to EMP could disable most critical supply chains, leaving the U.S. population living in conditions similar to centuries past,
prior to the advent of electric power,” said the July 2017 report provided Secrets."
“In the 1800s, the U.S. population was less than 60 million, and those people had many skills and assets necessary for survival without today’s infrastructure.
An extended blackout today could result in the death of a large fraction of the American people
through the effects of societal collapse, fuel shortage, disease, and starvation.
While national planning and preparation for such events could help mitigate the damage,
few such actions are currently underway or even being contemplated,” added the executive summary."
"I'm here from the government, and I'm here to help."
Right ! Tell that to the people of Puerto Rico, if you need a recent example.
Do you have the necessary skills to survive a year,... or more ?
Water, food, shelter, transportation, communications, medications, ability to defend yourself and family,
necessary skills training, or a work around the loss of electricity ?
If you can't protect it, ..you don't own it !
YMMV !
You are right as it would be very much like Puerto Rico many times over and if they thought the delay and the slowness of the recovery was great in Puerto Rico imagine what it would be like with everyone is pretty much in the same boat and can offer little to no help to their neighbors.