yes and no. Yes, you are right, of course, but nature provides examples of "what if this transformer is destroyed?" by actually destroying them. We can see the

yes and no. Yes, you are right, of course, but nature provides examples of "what if this transformer is destroyed?" by actually destroying them. We can see the effects of deliberate acts of destruction by using the acts of God and nature, and then extrapolating from there. In a real mass outage at scale we'd see a massive federal response, at the least.