[PA Engineer]

Been following this since the beginning. This looks like a total collapse including gamed scenarios of a world WROL and SHTF. The water issue is going to play out now including widespread disease. Watching the looting of pharmacies and collapse of hospitals was not unexpected. This will add to the human toll.

The grid failure was expected because of the flight of competent personal and replacement with Chavistas. Pure negligence and corruption.

I don't think they can bring the grid back up. Every time the power is restored to districts,major transformers are exploding. The slang is dirty power without safety systems. Could the US even bring the grid back up? I don't know.

Add to the misery the constant looting of warehouses and groceries, there is no capital to restock or restart. The dollar is the only currency accepted in the equivalent of barter situations.

Twitter hashtag #SinLuz has been valuable for monitoring.

There are lots of innocents suffering and of course the other half are ferals. I think this is going to get far worse in the short term. This should be a lesson to those that scoff at preppers. Even peppers should be paying close attention. Weapons and ammo is important. Water is life.

Best.

[caww]

I recall when Saddam was taken they expected a firefight.....coincidentally the towns electricity grid went down prior to team 121's mission of going in to bring him out in the dead of night. I suspect maduro's going to leave the hard way.

[Billthedrill]

This should be a lesson to those that scoff at preppers. Even preppers should be paying close attention. Weapons and ammo is important. Water is life.

Concur completely and a BTT to repeat it. Pay attention, all, because one "this actually happened" trumps a dozen "this could happen".

[fieldmarshaldj]

In other words, the end result of leftist tyranny. What a majority of the Demonrat party wants to import to our nation.

[matt04]

I’m guessing the grid is not designed to handle restarting such large areas at once or they don’t eave enough competent engineers to develop a plan to re-energize smaller areas at a time.

I know someone who worked for a large refrigerated/frozen food warehouse. In the event of a power outage, they had specific procedures to restart refrigeration equipment as you could blow transformers if everything tried to start all at once.

[Sarcasm Factory]

Your comments on the near future in Venezuela are illuminating and terrifying. I feel sorry for the innocents who don't deserve the vast suffering brought by the endgame of socialism. -_-