Prepare For a Grid Down Event. How Vulnerable is the US Power Grid?

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
By Paul Martin

PrepperFortress.com
MARCH 4, 2015

Being a prepper means trying to become more prepared for every possible situation that we can. While for most of us being completely prepared is physically or financially impossible there are some things we should all be doing. So in this article I ask how vulnerable is the US power grid? Because a grid down event could be the primary disaster, or the secondary event caused by any number of disasters.

We can prepare for a terrorist attack, we can prepare for an economic collapse and we can prepare for Natural disasters, but just about every one of these events could include some sort of grid down event.

Imagine how you would react if all the modern conveniences you depend on day in and day out were all taken away. I’m not just talking about your cell phone and the lights in the house not working, I’m talking about everything we need to survive and don’t give a second thought.

Everything from how fuel gets in our cars to how the water drips from our faucet requires electricity. You might not have an electric toilet (I don’t) but that water has to get from the water possessing or treatment plant to your toilet tank somehow.

Not being able to get fuel from the underground tanks at the gas station will not only affect your ability to function normally, it will also affect the food supply line, and depending on how long the grid is down it could affect refinery’s, ranching, farming, public services and even the ability for hospitals to function properly.

People Are Oblivious

Now think about how others will react. You might be semi prepared, but what about the people who are absolutely clueless to how fragile our power grid really is? How will these people react when the hand that feeds can no longer do so, and they are left to fend for themselves?

The truth is, these people will be after what you have. This is the scenario we all worry about when we think about the golden hoard flooding Wal-Mart and fighting for the last loaf of bread.

We all know that the average grocery store has about 3 days of food at any given time, but that 3 day supply can become a 3 hour supply in a grid down event, leaving people to fend for themselves.

These people that eat at McDonalds on a daily basis, and have no more than a few days of food in their homes will quickly become desperate. When our full service society comes to a screeching halt these people will first ask for a handout, and when that doesn’t happen they will be forced to take what they need at any cost.

How Vulnerable is the Power Grid?

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