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In the country you can assume it'll take longer to get power back. But, assuming an extended outage, it'll also be safer, and easier in the country. Until of c

In the country you can assume it'll take longer to get power back. But, assuming an extended outage, it'll also be safer, and easier in the country. Until of course the city folk get hungry. It'll all be good-will and friendly neighbors in the city until the food runs out. Then lawlessness will go through the roof, and, I expect, the dystopian future of so many movies kicks in. Assuming fuel is scarce, country areas near the city will be raided first. After the first wave of starvations all pretence at civilization ends. For texas-grid failure, there's at least hope from outside. If the hunger can be averted, country-side remains safe. But outside of texas is a whole-country grid. If that comes down hunger will kick in, and texas alone won't have the resources to help. The situation will get _really_bad before it gets better. Ideally the grid would have the ability to come up one station at a time, feeding, and being fed by, the immediate area. But its rarely going to be that simple.

Smoosh 4y ago
> until the food runs out Based upon the TP panics during the pandemic, I'd say that just the thought of potential shortages will make some people desperate.
devman0 4y ago
There are separate east and west grids outside of Texas.
mikro2nd 4y ago
As someone who lives "out in the country" I can tell you from experience that city people will walk right past a field full of food without even recognising that it is food. They're too used to seeing the polished, buffed and packaged thing that ends up in the supermarket.
- sw104 4y ago
  That sounds quite harsh. People that live in cities aren't stupid.
  - mikro2nd 4y ago
    Not stupid, they just don't know what a lot of food looks like before it's been processed into food. Not their fault, just a fact.
  - NateEag 4y ago
    Wheat looks like grass if you aren't familiar with it. ditto potato plants - only the roots are what you want, and as they're invisible, if you don't know what a potato plant looks like, you'll have no idea you're looking at food, as OP says. I could go on for a while, but you get the gist.

Smoosh 4y ago

> until the food runs out Based upon the TP panics during the pandemic, I'd say that just the thought of potential shortages will make some people desperate.

devman0 4y ago

There are separate east and west grids outside of Texas.

mikro2nd 4y ago

As someone who lives "out in the country" I can tell you from experience that city people will walk right past a field full of food without even recognising that it is food. They're too used to seeing the polished, buffed and packaged thing that ends up in the supermarket.

sw104 4y ago
That sounds quite harsh. People that live in cities aren't stupid.
- mikro2nd 4y ago
  Not stupid, they just don't know what a lot of food looks like before it's been processed into food. Not their fault, just a fact.
- NateEag 4y ago
  Wheat looks like grass if you aren't familiar with it. ditto potato plants - only the roots are what you want, and as they're invisible, if you don't know what a potato plant looks like, you'll have no idea you're looking at food, as OP says. I could go on for a while, but you get the gist.