I don't know how old you are, but you do NOT know what you're talking about at all!
"...off the grid"? GOOD LORD...many people had NO electricity at all! Have you never heard of the TVA? And you can't miss ( the net, air conditioning, nor a flush poddy )that you NEVER had!
The ONLY reason that "...America would be destroyed, if we had to go through that today", is because of the spoiled, cozzetted, and coddled SNOWFLAKES that are around today!
“The ONLY reason that “...America would be destroyed, if we had to go through that today”, is because of the spoiled, cozzetted, and coddled SNOWFLAKES that are around today!”
They can’t be like my cousins and I were, we grew up walking behind a plow, chopping wood with an axe or pulling a long crosscut saw, hoeing weeds out of the cotton, picking cotton, feeding the livestock etc. They could lay down the danged cell phone and get some exercise though.