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yeah, as my name suggests, i live in a place where "today", as in 23/11/2022 i have a 9 hour electricity cut "EVERYDAY" in near to 0C temperatures. It is winter

yeah, as my name suggests, i live in a place where "today", as in 23/11/2022 i have a 9 hour electricity cut "EVERYDAY" in near to 0C temperatures. It is winter and snowing most of the places. Heck, the places that are snowing get close to zero electricity for days and when it does come back, at best 3-6 hours. People adapt to living in harsh conditions. as you said, "creature comforts" take a hit but you don't just die from having a collapse in the grid. many days during bitter cold, our water pipes just freeze for weeks and we resort to using up saved up water (that we already save in big buckets as a habit) and ending up doing commando style wet tissue rub in place of a facewash, on and on.... It's not fun but when things improve, everyone laughs it off

atq2119 4y ago
People can adapt, but the real question is how quickly. If you go from virtually 100% grid availability to a complete long-term outage, many people won't be able to adapt quickly enough and will die, especially in large cities. Depending on how long the outage is and how many people die, civilization doesn't necessarily collapse. But the adaptation process isn't going to be fun. If you only go to rolling blackouts, people will most likely manage, except for those with certain health conditions. But that's a very different scenario, since it implies that there's continuous control over the grid.
selimthegrim 4y ago
Have people started using kangri again?
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  yep