[blu]

We all should move to Texas. Texas has kept their power grid untied to the national grids. Sure, an EMP might take out Texas, but the chances are better that it won't.

Cascading failures will affect huge sections, if not all, of the national grid.

Go Texas!

[metmom]

Cascading failures will affect huge sections, if not all, of the national grid.

It did in the Northeast Blackout of 2003 some years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003