As an electrical engineer, I’m pretty sure I’ll figure out a way to have my and my neighbors’ lights back on soon after. That show is full of characters who can’t even change a tire.
That’s what I thought when I saw the first promo, it isn’t going to erase brains. It might make things a heck of a lot harder and really crash our economic markets but we will be up and running again faster than any other nation could.
That show is full of characters who can’t even change a tire.
That there is such a preponderance of those people today in America is easily believable, that they'll be the significant percentage of survivors much more than a few weeks or months after civilizations collapse isn't...
Yeah, after working in industrial controls and on AC locomotives, EMP effects would seem more like a nuisance than anything else.
It wouldn’t be that hard if you could run down to Home Depot for some supplies - and it wouldn’t be hard if you only had to restore power for a few days. Creating electricity is low tech after all... But how would you do it for long term - without the superstructure of a modern society supporting you? One of the biggest concerns with ‘just in time’ is there might not be access to food after three days - riots will quickly happen. Police cars wouldn’t run. Phones won’t work. Cities could burn in short order. Refugees would flood into the country side with nothing to eat. You and your neighbors would have power... Humm, tell me more. What can you do to put the power back on for the 260 million of the rest of us?
I can see stumbling around in the dark for a few days after an event like this, but the main story is supposed to take place 15 years after the lights go out. You’d expect anyone who has managed to survive that long to be fairly adept. Even the younger characters would be as good with the postindustrial technology as modern teens are with smart phones and computers.
The future isn’t what it used to be.