“Velocity of violence,” great concept.
Feral criminals will “launch” as soon as the power goes out, because they will assume it will be a short-lived opportunity for major robberies. That rapid reaction will kick off the slide in hours as you said.
I agree on the feral Vv - Velocity of violence. Immediate and fast moving against the usual soft targets- human and retail.
Communications will be a controlling variable on their ‘combat radius’ so to speak, so while they will likely ‘go kinetic’ very rapidly, they won’t be able to sustain effective operations without comms — even if they have working individual and collective transport.
Makes me wonder what the gummint QRF have cooked up from a C3I perspective.
How FAST and to what degree will they shut down social media, texting, personal cell phone traffic, etc?
Will they leave it up to gather intel, and allow the early mayhem to develop and organize, or will they shut it all down except for ‘official’ traffic. dunno. Depends on their intent - benevolent or malevolent. If malevolent, they will allow mayhem to scare the populace into a desired set of cocoons and safe zones. If benevolent, they will work to shut it down as best they can.
BUT, per your ABNB, I feel certain the populace will be called via the EBS (and ‘amber alerts’ and digital road signage) to ‘safe zones’ - which effectively amount to control and redistribution facilities.
REM: keep your Midland’s charged and available. Doubt they’ll kill the CB channels.
Food for thought.