Without trying to give my kids nightmares, I do tell them that once they confirm an EMP (not too hard to do), to fill up everything that can hold water, with water, as we use city water. So there will be a short time when water is available from gravity feed, and then it will be gone. Hopefully enough will be collected to ride us into rooftop collection.
...of course, life would suck after the pulse.
Thing that gets me is that alot of people think we would go back to say an 1870’s way of life, which would be survivable, even if it’s miserable.
Horse and buggy days.
But how many people even know how to DRIVE a buggy, MUCH LESS MAKE ONE?
How many people could make candles? Even if they had the wax? Come to think of it, where does wax even come from?
How many could make and operate a loom?
We wouldn’t go back to the 1870’s, we’d go back to the zero-zero seventies!!