Big Blackout.......Are You Ready?

In New Delhi  Hundreds of millions of people across India were left without power on Tuesday in one of the world's worst blackouts, trapping miners, stranding train travelers and plunging hospitals into darkness when grids collapsed for the second time in two days. Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage covered states where half of India's 1.2 billion people live and embarrassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand. Even before they could figure out the reason for yesterday's failure, they had more grid failures today. In the USA our grid is a little better but our grid is still being pushed to it's limits. Just think if 1/3 or 2/3 of the US grid goes down? What would be the out come? How bad would it get and how bad would crime get? How many deaths and how much would and could be lost to a blackout of over half the country? Are you ready for this? Do you have plans for a grid down event of a few hours, days or weeks? Could you last for months, remember that NASA has said that from June of 2012- the End of 2013 is going to be an open time for CEM's and solar flares and we have already been hit with a few more than normal, it's just been luck that none of them have been real big. But what if the next one is the biggest that has ever hit the planet and it shuts down the grid for years? Just think about that moment you wake up and there is no power, no water and very few cars or trucks running! And with no hope of getting them back anytime soon, are you ready? Is any of us ready for this event? I may not be 100% ready but I know I am better off then 99% of the country and do have a plan to cook and heat and boil water. Without power can you cook, heat your home or shelter and can you boil water? Some think they will just build a fire and all will be good but cooking over open flame is a learned skill so do it now and have the skill for later. Buy a LP stove and have a good supply of LP. Just one of my grills that runs off a 1 lb LP tank will give me 6-8 meals on low heat per 1 lb tank and I have a lot of the 1 lb tanks and a few 20 lb ones.

Plan, Store, and learn skills and you will be better off than 99% of the people in this country.