In the fifties some southern schools practiced evacuations to get kids out of town in the event of a ‘atomic bomb’ attack. Parents would come to the school, kids would get in the cars (five kids to a car) parents would drive around the block and drop the kids back off at the school. Even then some of us wanted to know what ‘the plan’ was... We were told in the event of a real attack kids would be driven to a field out of town and left there. Period. No parents, no food, no water, just ‘out of town’.... Back then planning was done by men of action: 'We gotta do SOMETHING' types.
My suggestion is a two week drill. The teams arrive at their destinations and there's no gas in their cars, no water beyond a 2 day supply, no heating or air conditioning. No electricity. Their goal is to move 8 tons of food 400 miles...in 6 days. Oh, and no cell phones or computers beyond 5 days... and no internet...
“Without electricity to pump gasoline or power electric vehicles, just exactly HOW are they going to deliver food?”
And, water will stop flowing. That is the criteria, which you just said plus no water, no delivery of medical supplies to hospitals, for this drill so it will be interesting to see what they will do.
I expect this drill will give them numbers as to how many people will die immediately and in days after loss of power. We can always “imagine” the numbers, but I expect hospitals in the drill will come up with their numbers of how many patients died and when they died.
It’s already a given that millions will die as the premise is power cannot be restored soon. Can anything be done to lessen the numbers? Hospitals could store more critical medicines and have more backup power and develop a way to keep water flowing even if it is in stored containers.
Those of us in individual houses will be on our own as there is no way, as you say, that food or water distribution can happen. They are going to have to admit that.