Same here.......Remember a few years ago when almost the entire northeast was hit by that power failure? I think it occured on a Wednesday afternoon and power in my area wasn't restored till 2 days later.
That was a brief glimpse of what it could be like. Stoplights out and traffic backed up in every direction at every intersection. The supermarkets had a run on water and pop supplies, everybody was stocking up. By the second day the supermarkets were force to throw out all refrigerated products such as meat and stuff because it was going bad........Hardly anybody was driving at night because it was complete darkness.
My neighbors invited me over for a bar-b-q on one of the nights and I saw the most incredible thing. For the first time in my life here everybody was out walking around the neighborhoods just enjoying the weather. Thats all there was to do, there was no television, no computers, no nothing...........Thats not a bad thing.
Just last year we were hit with some kind of tornado/microburst with hurricane force winds that just devasted our neighborhood. We were without power for 5 days. Everyone in the neighborhood came out initially and helped where they could, but as soon as everyone ran out and purchased their own generator, it was right back to “normal”, if that’s what it is nowadays.