As someone that worked in it for a large city, it's crazy how out of date and insecure so many things are.
It's scary to think about how fast society would truly crumble if there was a mass, long term power outage. With so much riding on electricity (including infrastructure, money, deliveries) I think modern cities would start to crumble after 2 weeks.
Everything is electronic, even most landline phone systems. Who has analog phones that work with the power out these days, how many even have a landline?
All money would stop. Orders would stop. Food wouldn't be delivered. Hell, water processing plants would probably even stop. 95+% of employment would stop.
Max 1 month to complete and utter anarchy and killing people for food scenario. Before that? The riots might even start day 1.
As someone that worked in it for a large city, it's crazy how out of date and insecure so many things are.
It's scary to think about how fast society would truly crumble if there was a mass, long term power outage. With so much riding on electricity (including infrastructure, money, deliveries) I think modern cities would start to crumble after 2 weeks.
Everything is electronic, even most landline phone systems. Who has analog phones that work with the power out these days, how many even have a landline?
All money would stop. Orders would stop. Food wouldn't be delivered. Hell, water processing plants would probably even stop. 95+% of employment would stop.
Max 1 month to complete and utter anarchy and killing people for food scenario. Before that? The riots might even start day 1.
Scary shit.