“Only if you say so”
Hey we just decided we are survivors. Truthfully we aren’t that concerned about everyone else beyond friends and family. If the grid goes down for a year it will take care of the illegal immigration problem, the muslim refugee problem and the left wing loon problem.
re: “If the grid goes down for a year “
This is the “calculus” that’s always screwed up; what do you think happens when an EMP strikes - does it take out ALL the lineman and plant operators and engineers too?
NO!
This is where we depart, the ‘public’ and newspaper writers assume a static, non-dynamic system, like the power system just ‘dropped down from the heavens’ one day and there is was ... whereas in REALITY there are companies that specialize in utility line construction and line crews paid by the utilities that maintain the system in normal day to day outages that occur in a big system.
Take a look at the ONCOR system in N. Texas - about 1200 customers w/o power right now, and we haven’t had a storm in 3 or four days now, this is just ‘outages’ due to car accidents, animals/squirrels etc getting tangled up in distribution lines, tree contact (from seasonal growth that has not been trimmed) and the like:
https://stormcenter.oncor.com/external/default.html