I really find myself kind of conflicted over this. It involves two different groups of people who may as well be living on a different planet, as far as I’m concerned: (1) incompetent bureaucrats in government agencies and government-run utilities, and (2) residents who have become so dependent on a nanny-state government that they can’t fend for themselves.
It's totally unrealistic. You can't rebuild an electric infrastructure..poles, lines, transformers, for hundreds of thousands of people in a week or so..
The hillbillies in ‘fly over’ country they love to mock would have already been fashioning barrel stoves for heat and hunting the squirrels in central park.
Let the dumpster divers searching for garbage to eat shiver in the dark. Those that survive will never elect another liberal dumba$$ like Bloomers and Christie Creame.