It’s convenient if your house is ‘built’ for hot weather. Most now aren’t.
I lived for 2 summers, in Mississippi, with no ac. Not even in my car. Couldn’t afford it. This in an apartment building built in the 1980’s. During a multi day 100+ spell the coolest it got in my bedroom at night was 82.
But I had a fan. And running water. And a fridge for cold drinks.
Now, imagine no lights or cooking capacity. Not even a fan. Or fresh water. They’ll cut that off too. Most people don’t have wells.
They don’t have to risk venturing to your house. You might be armed. Your neighbors might have cellphone video of the event. They’ll either cook you out or freeze you out. Or just ‘drought’ you out.
Ability to persecute political enemies is one of the reasons for the smart meters. a few clicks of a mouse somewhere hundreds of miles away and you’re back in the stone age.
Been there and done that. Survived just fine. They will have to come to my house.
I am on a well and septic. Hubby knows how to wire the pump to the generator for water. I have a basement that stays a lot cooler than the outdoors in summer, and warmer in winter.
We have adequate camping gear and fuel for cooking. We also have 2 fireplaces and lots of wood already cut as well as plenty of trees to cut in the future. Not to mention the outdoor fire pit. Also planning on a building a brick rocket stove for cooking outdoors with out heating up the kitchen. May even go back to an outdoor propane BBQ grill. Already have one for charcoal and plenty of charcoal stored.
People in the city may have a problem. Lots of the people in the country won’t have those issues. They’ll have to visit us, or have a long long wait, cause this Ozark Hillbilly intends to cling to her religion and garden, and sll other self sufficiency she can muster.
I remember one really hot summer in the country with my grand parents sometime in the 1950s. They lived in a really old house. Propane stove and wood stove.
No well, and no indoor facilities. No airconditioning. House got so hot, that the fan didn’t help that much at night. We took the bed outside and slept under the stars just fine.