What you need to worry about is anything that leads to a loss of electricity.
You mean like every ice storm? Every tornado that hits nearby? Like every deer camp trip? Like every duck camp week? Like turkey hunting weekend? Like when we go prairie dog hunting? Like when we go camping?
A country boy can survive.
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Perhaps a country boy can survive but the not the way you are accustomed.
We aren’t talking about an ice storm or tornado that passes over and things eventually return to normal. We could be talking about the rest of your life without electricity.
No gas? No commercial goods. Once your supplies are gone and you find that everybody had the same idea to go hunting for food and wildlife is scarcer than hens teeth, you will start looking at tree bark soup.
If you have a country boy existence with raising your own crops to feed your animals you better have some family and friends to protect it.
Until Society and law and order is restored your lifestyle will be very difficult. Even a country boy will be severely challenged.
Life however you plan will not be normal. If you store a lot, and I mean a lot, of food and water where it is not obvious you have it and it is easy to protect you might have a chance.
Radiation sickness is not fun and usually means death. If you can get under a concrete slab somewhere in your basement until there is a heavy rain to clear off the most of the radiation from your roof you will need to stay put in that space. After the rain you still won’t want to walk around outside. The wildlife you want to eat will all be dead of radiation sickness if your area was affected by fallout. In the event of no fallout your neighbors will be coming by to see if you can feed them after all the squirrels and rabbits are gone. After a while they won’t take no for an answer and will organize against you.
You will need 24 hour watches, armed guards who you can trust while you sleep.
It could really be nasty and all the making of fun about it aside, it will be ugly.
Right. It gets ugly without electricity. It would take a LOT of work to rebuild the power grid.
I’m no electrician [any more than a nuclear physicist] but as I understand it nukes would cause power surges from hell that would blow up the entire system. Power relays and power plants would explode. Even the larger wires.
We would need electricians, thousands of miles of new wires, etc. before the mess is cleaned up. We would even be calling on the milatary engineers. Ships and subs would sail back to help before the mess is cleaned up.
Starvation. Zero gas for 99% of towns and even then it would be rationed. Anarchy. Martial law. Dark Ages although survivors could get some traction within thirty years or so.