How would they get the large step down transformer they’d need to do that?
Those are made in china. Need several months lead time for delivery and need to come through either a major port (hey, those big cities that burned to the ground within a month of the blackout) or an airport (hey, another city, what’s the odds their control tower still works?).
And that electrical power plant? It was connected to those long ‘antenna’ wires that were the biggest problem. It probably burned to the ground as well. Hope it wasn’t a nuke plant too.
“How would they get the large step down transformer they’d need to do that?”
I think too many people on here are getting their panties in a wad over really nothing.
We may very well have societal breakdown in this country at some point, but it won’t be because of some North Korean toy nuke.
As for the transformers you speak of, the ones we have here export our hydro power to the west coast. Their not necessary for our local electrical consumption. Our water, sewage and gas would be up and running quickly.