If the entire United States was to lose electricity for 6 months, how would you ensure you and your family’s survival?

I think that people who answer along the lines of “I’d cook on the grill in my backyard and play board games with the kids while the Internet is down, and just wait a few days for the government to fix everything” or “What’s all this talk about guns? So no one can watch T.V., big deal,” either didn’t read the question or don’t understand the way things work.

How would you survive a power outage which occurs across the entire country? Power runs farms, factories, hospitals, fuel pumps at gas stations, and almost all forms of communication. Banks can’t give money without power. Store registers can’t run without power, and even if you’re lucky enough to find a store that will hand-write a receipt, they can’t take credit or debit cards without power.

With no pumps to fuel delivery trucks, grocery stores will be empty within three days. Everyone with cash will get the good stuff, and the looters will get the rest. Most people have less than five days worth of food in their kitchen pantries. You have more food than that? Great. Your neighbors don’t, and by neighbors I mean the hundreds of thousands of people around you, including the ones who can smell your burgers sizzling on the backyard grill.

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