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What If America Went Dark?

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Re: What If America Went Dark?

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If America went dark I think parts of it would be OK. ERCOT and hurricanes have forced quite a bit of resilience throughout my region. I know of multiple people in the TX hill country with thousands of gallons of buried propane on site and brand new generators waiting to be fired up for the very first time. If the weather is mild, most of these people could go two solid months before refueling.

If they had bought solar+batteries they'd never even have to worry about refueling in a few months

Re: What If America Went Dark?

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post #9

If America went dark I think parts of it would be OK. ERCOT and hurricanes have forced quite a bit of resilience throughout my region. I know of multiple people in the TX hill country with thousands of gallons of buried propane on site and brand new generators waiting to be fired up for the very first time. If the weather is mild, most of these people could go two solid months before refueling.

> I know of multiple people in the TX hill country with thousands of gallons of buried propane on site and brand new generators waiting to be fired up

I assume that region also has a lot of people without buried propane and generators, but who do have lots and lots and lots of guns.

Re: What If America Went Dark?

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post #11
post #5

I’d like to be optimistic and say we’d have about a week before things started getting Mad Max-y out here in the suburbs.

I routinely tell my wife I'm ready to assume the rank of neighborhood warlord if things go tribal.

The question is if your neighbors are ready for that.

I think a lot of survivalist planning seems to forget that few of us live somewhere so far out that we don't need to account for our neighbors actions.

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