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>...long period of time without power and society basically collapses. Im hoping this is a joke. I live in a country that had terrible electricity issues. Muc

>...long period of time without power and society basically collapses. Im hoping this is a joke. I live in a country that had terrible electricity issues. Much to say there are no riots on the streets and society has not even come close to collapse. (Everyone from the president to schoolkids makes fun of the utility on Twitter) People just make fun of the fact that they have to BBQ more often than not and change diets slightly to account for the lack of constant refrigeration. More people have invested in solar solutions for creature comforts like lights and such. Moral of the story is, people have just become a wee bit less reliant on the energy grid. Renewable sector is booming too. So I'll just stop right here. Because some humans have clearly forgotten the human race has existed for millenia without electricity.

mabbo 6y ago
> some humans have clearly forgotten the human race has existed for millenia without electricity. And some humans have never lived in a place that falls below freezing in the winter. I lived through a 3-week ice storm in '98 in eastern Ontario [0]. That wasn't even a large outage, just constant failures all over because the ice weighed down and broke power lines. 34 people died, a huge number of farm animals died, and that was with the military being called in to try to help everyone. You take out all electricity to a major city like Toronto in the dead of winter for a week, thousands would die from the cold. Take your "liveable climate privilege" outta here, lol. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_...
- vagrantJin 6y ago
  Haha. Freak events happen everywhere but I doubt the dessert dweller wants to hear stories of your floods. A couple thousand dead people, bless their souls, does not constitute a break down in society. And considering we have people in remote regions shrugging these things off without electricity but basic tools and fire - Id be concerned about the lack of thinking and foresight among the population rather than the weather.
roenxi 6y ago
> society has not even come close to collapse > change diets slightly to account for the lack of constant refrigeration Maybe I have unreasonably high expectations of civilised society compared to you. What country, and what is the longest (contiguous) period your area has gone without power? I'm just doing rough estimates, but after ~72 hours any food that needs refrigeration is at risk, mobile phone networks are gone and electronic transactions are gone. That is a pretty crippling level of stress on a modern first world nation.

mabbo 6y ago

> some humans have clearly forgotten the human race has existed for millenia without electricity. And some humans have never lived in a place that falls below freezing in the winter. I lived through a 3-week ice storm in '98 in eastern Ontario [0]. That wasn't even a large outage, just constant failures all over because the ice weighed down and broke power lines. 34 people died, a huge number of farm animals died, and that was with the military being called in to try to help everyone. You take out all electricity to a major city like Toronto in the dead of winter for a week, thousands would die from the cold. Take your "liveable climate privilege" outta here, lol. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_...

vagrantJin 6y ago
Haha. Freak events happen everywhere but I doubt the dessert dweller wants to hear stories of your floods. A couple thousand dead people, bless their souls, does not constitute a break down in society. And considering we have people in remote regions shrugging these things off without electricity but basic tools and fire - Id be concerned about the lack of thinking and foresight among the population rather than the weather.

roenxi 6y ago

> society has not even come close to collapse > change diets slightly to account for the lack of constant refrigeration Maybe I have unreasonably high expectations of civilised society compared to you. What country, and what is the longest (contiguous) period your area has gone without power? I'm just doing rough estimates, but after ~72 hours any food that needs refrigeration is at risk, mobile phone networks are gone and electronic transactions are gone. That is a pretty crippling level of stress on a modern first world nation.