[2banana]

After 4 days without power - most large American cities would be in the MadMax Zone...

[PowderMonkey]

"After 4 days without power - most large American cities would be in the MadMax Zone"

Optimist. I give it one night. However, the Washington D.C. metro region was severely affected by last summer's massive storm, that knocked out power for many suburban neighborhoods for weeks. Nobody chimped out because of the isolation imposed by downed trees, and it was simply too hot to even breathe. 102 degrees at 90% humidity, and the air dead still, for the duration of the power outage. An urban environment would be a different story. Chimp city after 24 hours.

[TurboZamboni]

Congressional staffers will get a waiver from it.

[staytrue]

“After 4 days without power - most large American cities would be in the MadMax Zone...”

I think most Americans can stick it out 10 days to 14 days IF THEY KNOW THE POWER IS COMING BACK ON A PREDICTABLE DATE.

If the people don’t know when it is coming back on, then most everywhere will go Mad Max within hours or even minutes.

[Pollster1]

After 4 days without power - most large American cities would be in the MadMax Zone...

There are likely to be a lot of aggressive Skittles/Tea runs, and a smaller but still quite significant number of White Hispanic responses.