[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper Ping - Fires in Australia - consequence to no "Plan B"
Also, appropriate for California

.."The fires cut road access, which meant towns ran out of fuel and fell low on food.
Power to towns was cut and mobile phone services stopped working.
So too did the ATMs and EFTPOS services the economy needs to keep running.
In a modern, wealthy nation such as Australia, how could this happen?"

"The systems I mentioned just now are "complex" systems.
This means they are connected to other systems in many ways.
It also means a change in one part of the system, such as a bushfire in a landscape,
can set off unpredicted changes in connected systems—be they political, technological, economic or social."

"All complex systems have three things in common: they need a constant
supply of energy to maintain their functioning they are interconnected across a range of scales,
from the personal and local to the global and beyond
they are fragile when they have no "redundancy," or Plan B. "
(Emphasis mine)

Prepping is a life-style of logical action, rather than emotional reaction.

HT to Ben Lurkin and Metmom !

[Carriage Hill]

Been prepping since 2013; ready for (almost) anything, in the south central PA, or anywhere.

[Grammy]

".."The fires cut road access, which meant towns ran out of fuel and fell low on food. Power to towns was cut and mobile phone services stopped working. So too did the ATMs and EFTPOS services the economy needs to keep running. In a modern, wealthy nation such as Australia, how could this happen?""

Many people don't understand that if there is no internet, you can't buy fuel. After an ice storm near here there were stations with both power and fuel, but they couldn't pump it because there was no internet.