[rarestia]

The devastation is predicated on the inability for urban dwellers to survive without electricity, etc.

While young children and the elderly would likely be first to perish, esp. in the southern US summers, those of us who are prepared would likely be just fine hunting and gathering to survive. I’ve honed my skills thanks to Boy Scouts and various survival courses I’ve taken, and I’m sure I could survive for at least a year without electricity or any commercial entity.

[Renderofveils]

The devastation is predicated on the inability for urban dwellers to survive without electricity, etc.

The biggest problem (for the cities, anyway) is fresh water. Being effectively "locked" into an urban area with no clear direction on where to get clean water once the bottles run out means within the first two weeks, you're looking at a staggering death toll.

[autumnraine]

Houses aren’t built nowadays with cross ventilation and high ceilings in mind for summers without AC. In the south, those in the newer homes will not survive.

[PA Engineer]

those of us who are prepared would likely be just fine hunting and gathering to survive.

There is a potential fallacy here. During the great depression, the deer were hunted to near extinction and took decades to recover. Something to think about when preparing the larder.

[johnnycap]

Reporting from the deep south here...the basement at my house stays pretty cool throughout the summer...I’d just move down there. And if that got too hot...I’d move to the 1950’s fall out shelter 30 feet below that which stays almost wintery year round.

Problem solved.

[Crim]

Some of us are prepared to live in a mad max world...

I even own a car that has no electronics to be fried by an EMP.

Why everyone is looking under their hood I’ll be packed and leaving town on the back roads.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Yeah, until a million city slickers show up.

[Ellendra]

While young children and the elderly would likely be first to perish, esp. in the southern US summers,

And in the northern US winters. Most places are not set up for electrically-independent heat. Even a lot of wood and gas stoves are electric now.