This is why I don't live in a megalopolis.

[Borderland]

Manhattan at sunset. No power.

https://i.ibb.co/hDc5gWy/190714142015-new-york-0713-blackout-01-exlarge-169.jpg

When I first moved to my present location we had power outages for days at a time. The difference was I was prepared for it.

[blues]

Who says they weren't prepared?

https://live.staticflickr.com/8527/8506285409_afb11a359c_b.jpg

[Borderland]

Who says they weren't prepared?

https://live.staticflickr.com/8527/8506285409_afb11a359c_b.jpg

Who ya gonna call?

[Borderland]

I didn't see the thread posted before mine. Sorry.

[RoyGBiv]

Our power went out after a loud pop outside yesterday around 8. With the Manhattan news already well known, I called my prepper buddy and spun up a conspiracy story. Told him to get ready for FEMA to call us up to start herding folks towards the concentration camps, and that he needs to put his phones and radios into the microwave, in case it was actually an EMP attack.

I enjoy getting him going sometimes. Lol.

[Borderland]

Our power went out after a loud pop outside yesterday around 8. With the Manhattan news already well known, I called my prepper buddy and spun up a conspiracy story. Told him to get ready for FEMA to call us up to start herding folks towards the concentration camps, and that he needs to put his phones and radios into the microwave, in case it was actually an EMP attack.

I enjoy getting him going sometimes. Lol.

Coordinated attack. Probably Ivan.

[Tackleberry40sw]

Who ya gonna call?

Ghostbusters

[Drang]

Our power went out after a loud pop outside yesterday around 8. With the Manhattan news already well known, I called my prepper buddy and spun up a conspiracy story. Told him to get ready for FEMA to call us up to start herding folks towards the concentration camps, and that he needs to put his phones and radios into the microwave, in case it was actually an EMP attack.

I enjoy getting him going sometimes. Lol.

Guess what? Someone actually tested various measures to protect against EMP: AmazonSmile: Disaster Preparedness for EMP Attacks and Solar Storms (Expanded Edition) eBook: Arthur T. Bradley: Books (https://smile.amazon.com/Disaster-Preparedness-Attacks-Storms-Expanded-ebook/dp/B0096SRC8U/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=emp&qid=1563134056&s=books&sr=1-10)

[CleverNickname]

Guess what? Someone actually tested various measures to protect against EMP: AmazonSmile: Disaster Preparedness for EMP Attacks and Solar Storms (Expanded Edition) eBook: Arthur T. Bradley: Books (https://smile.amazon.com/Disaster-Preparedness-Attacks-Storms-Expanded-ebook/dp/B0096SRC8U/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=emp&qid=1563134056&s=books&sr=1-10)
The fact that this book is available in a Kindle edition is funny to me.

[Drang]

The fact that this book is available in a Kindle edition is funny to me.

IKR?

Although, if you've waited until the power has gone out it's too late. Buy the Kindle, print out the relevant parts... or follow his guidance for home-made Faraday cages, and keep a spare kindle/tablet/laptop in one. (Note: you need to insulate the contents of the Faraday Cage from the outer walls of the cage! Line the ammo cans/trash can/whatever with insulation!)

[RoyGBiv]

Still one of my favorite books.

If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16

[blues]

Still one of my favorite books.

If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16

That story takes place about 45 minutes from here.

Can't remember if I read the second book, and I know I didn't read the third.

[ranger]

Still one of my favorite books.

If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16

That book is the scariest book I ever read - it seems to be too true of a possible scenario.

[Arbninftry]

Still one of my favorite books.

If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16

Well hell, he killed me when he ate his dog.

But if you have to I probably would to

[ranger]

Well hell, he killed me when he ate his dog.

But if you have to I probably would to

Actually - didn't he give the dead dog to his neighbor so the food value would not be lost?

[Arbninftry]

Actually - didn't he give the dead dog to his neighbor so the food value would not be lost?

You probably are right, it’s been a while since I read it.

[Malamute]

Heard some bit on the radio (https://www.npr.org/2019/07/14/741644711/broadway-shows-canceled-after-new-york-city-blackout)about the blackout, sounds like it didnt go too badly overall, people were fairly good natured. Singing group giving a free concert on the street since theirs was cancelled, people making music, hanging out. Ordinary people out directing traffic at intersections, Not the bedlam its been at other times and places.

[ccmdfd]

Still one of my favorite books.

If I owned a production company, I'd make the movie.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16

Yes it's a necro-post.

Just read this book, recommended to me by one of my partners.

Fascinating both from a subject content as well as the fact that it's set in an area well known to me.

Crazy to think that that's something that could happen and how quickly things would go south.

And to some of the other posts after this, he had to kill both of his golden retrievers. One was fed to a neighbor, the other was fed to his pregnant daughter.

[Joe S]

Manhattan at sunset. No power.

https://i.ibb.co/hDc5gWy/190714142015-new-york-0713-blackout-01-exlarge-169.jpg

When I first moved to my present location we had power outages for days at a time. The difference was I was prepared for it.

During Sandy, parts of Manhattan lost power for 3 days. I was over the river in NJ, and we did 2 weeks. Same for 2003: if I recall correctly, a good chunk of NYC was out for just over a day; in my part of NJ, we had fits and starts and it took a little longer.

So being outside the megalopolis proper is not a guarantee, I guess is my point.

The most interesting takeaway for me, I remember thinking at the time, was how little looting/theft happened in NYC. At least for those occasions, NYers don't seem to riot as quickly as folks in some places. And there are lots of anecdotes about how people came together and helped each other out. Similar to the pandemic: everyone sees pictures of a deserted Times Square (I can show you mine), but I've never once seen in the news how much time a lot of folks put into making sure that elderly folks got groceries, and did all kinds of little things to make sure they were as comfortable as possible (including unclogging toilets, that one I'd prefer to forget).

All that is just to say that not all city slickers start immediately starving if you take away their sushi delivery for an afternoon, and it doesn't turn into Thunderdome that quickly either.