That is true unless the brown-out was of short duration. Certainly if we lose power for days, there will be deaths in hospitals and death on the streets.
I was in a county, not mine, yesterday, and a fellow who has a large house is going to put in a “tornado” shelter in a place in front of his house. He said this is concrete and the company digs the hole, puts it in, large enough for 10 people, and covers it up with the dirt taken out and the end result is a hill of dirt over the thing and the cost is $4,000 for the company to do this.
Then he will landscape that hill with plants so it looks as though nothing is there except this planted hill. It will be air conditioned and he will put his pictures, etc., all the things he wouldn't want to lose, in there after it is built. There will be water and food in there.
I couldn't believe the cost was just $4,000. I had to believe him as he is an architect of many years of experience, so he would know if that price is right.
His history was interesting - he worked in Panama as an architect, when the Panama canal needed work. That was before we gave away the canal. In WWII, he was a bomber pilot stationed in England for two years and bombed Germany and stayed alive to tell about it.
Crikey, he’s an old goat, ain’t he?
I see I need to start a little research stream on something like that...
I hope he included a bathroom in his plans :p