[PA Engineer]

You can believe what you want to believe, but between the 'read-between-the-lines' stuff in the news and the firsthand accounts coming in from FReepers. This thing is going nuclear very soon!

I believed this would happen from the beginning, especially when ConEd cut the power. I am continually amazed at the lack of imagination on the part of people, elected officials and emergency management.

This scenario was foreseeable based on only one factor and then the resulting cascade. Without power, high density urban society collapses immediately.

Modern urban dwellers (and others) have been lulled into a technology trap. They have replaced a minimum of self-sufficiency with the false god of dependency. Many of these problems could have been easily mitigated with a basic degree of individual preparation. Three days is a nice start, but nevertheless it is folly. Two weeks worth of preps would have allowed the modern urban society to begin to get back on it's feet while minimizing the human tragedy.

This entire crisis was predicable.

[Kartographer]

"This entire crisis was predicable."

And yet some of my preparedness threads have prep scoffers showing up on the even now, with a prefect example right before their eyes.