An amount of time has passed and you continue to cast imaginary spells and your family starts to worry.
Why should they? There are tons of wood in forest, it will took them dozen minutes to collect enough firewood to keep house warm even if I will be too lazy to do that.
Don't tell me that "solar flash" also vapourised our forest and so on.
has caused your mother-in-law to pass away from malnutrition and lack of salt.
Wait, solar flare also vapourised salt? You mean Sodium Chloride with melting temperature around 800°C and who knows boiling one?
We definitely on the next level. :)
There are 6 men and two women.
Slightly tired of them, really. They definitely bring me their broken electronic crap to repair. Again. As always. Well, I fix some of their electronic shit and they are happy, as always, and don't hesitate to provide us with everything necessary and much more, as always.
But I still not shure if all that stuff is applicable for next level. :)
So, I had more than enough firewood to keep my home warm. Nobody get cold and so on.
Trees don't run on electricity!
Really they do. You know, chemical reactions, ions, radicals and all that stuff. All that is about electrons.
Your family didn't have enough to go around
Why? Just in kitchen I have around 2 kg of salt, one table salt and another for dishwasher. And who knows how many in warehouse. Last time I bought five 1kg packs of dishwasher salt and three 1kg table salt, and there already was something.
Neighbors return home and nope power is still off.
All my neighbours have gasoline generators, so power outage is not a problem anymore, since among things they bring me to fix was few electronic regulators from gens. Others just have older electronicless generators.
Your wife is now starting to accept the fact that you can't let electricity go
Everything apperared to be fine with electricity in my house. generator is murmuring on the wood gas without any problems, and could do it as long, as there is wood to add. Well, of course I have to stor it periodically for cleaning and servicing, but that's not a problem at all.
Your preparedness and cool head has made you a leader in the eyes of your neighbors and family.
God save me from that. I deny being leader. And neighbours are not any dumber of whatever, they just specialise in things other than elecronics. Also they are also stocked decently - remeber - they bring me what I needed, so they had and excess.
You need to set up a means of communication as all wireless communication is permanently down, and it seems only word of mouth is the only way news is getting in or out.
How is that? CB radios and walkies-talkies are fine and repaired.
How do you establish trade moving forward?
I don't think we need any trade at all at that point, since all that disater is temporary and main goal is to pass through with minimum damage, not make money. Will sum up everything later if needed.
Do you stay put, or do you leave?
Really nothing changed a lot. Yes, nobody making iPnone parties anymore, and there are no mains power from electricity company, but latter is not for long, they are fixing their stuff too. Why should we move?
What does your community look like? Will you have enough resources to take care of outsiders or do you fend for yourself?
Regular village, with forest, fields, log or stone houses and all that stuff. Just with temporary centralized power outage, which is not a rare thing, really, you know, that trees sometimes fall on wires or ice builds or wind, or somebody break power pole with tractor, so everybody prepared.
No, even a few weeks without electricity will not be even close to awful disaster here. Towns are more vulnerable, of course, but I don't think it will be total collapse too. Some shit will happen in some places, but nothing critical. As electricity will be fixed everything will return to norm.
Humans live without any electricity only 150 years ago, and that was not hell on earth. And even modern snowflakes will certainly survive a week or even a month without electricity.
We have a proverb - "devil is not as scary as they paint him", in the sense that things you don't dealt with often exagregated and when you really meat them, you find out that everything could be resolved, fixed or defeated easier than they told you.
Why should they? There are tons of wood in forest, it will took them dozen minutes to collect enough firewood to keep house warm even if I will be too lazy to do that.
Don't tell me that "solar flash" also vapourised our forest and so on.
Wait, solar flare also vapourised salt? You mean Sodium Chloride with melting temperature around 800°C and who knows boiling one?
We definitely on the next level. :)
Slightly tired of them, really. They definitely bring me their broken electronic crap to repair. Again. As always. Well, I fix some of their electronic shit and they are happy, as always, and don't hesitate to provide us with everything necessary and much more, as always.
But I still not shure if all that stuff is applicable for next level. :)
So, I had more than enough firewood to keep my home warm. Nobody get cold and so on.
Really they do. You know, chemical reactions, ions, radicals and all that stuff. All that is about electrons.
Why? Just in kitchen I have around 2 kg of salt, one table salt and another for dishwasher. And who knows how many in warehouse. Last time I bought five 1kg packs of dishwasher salt and three 1kg table salt, and there already was something.
All my neighbours have gasoline generators, so power outage is not a problem anymore, since among things they bring me to fix was few electronic regulators from gens. Others just have older electronicless generators.
Everything apperared to be fine with electricity in my house. generator is murmuring on the wood gas without any problems, and could do it as long, as there is wood to add. Well, of course I have to stor it periodically for cleaning and servicing, but that's not a problem at all.
God save me from that. I deny being leader. And neighbours are not any dumber of whatever, they just specialise in things other than elecronics. Also they are also stocked decently - remeber - they bring me what I needed, so they had and excess.
How is that? CB radios and walkies-talkies are fine and repaired.
I don't think we need any trade at all at that point, since all that disater is temporary and main goal is to pass through with minimum damage, not make money. Will sum up everything later if needed.
Really nothing changed a lot. Yes, nobody making iPnone parties anymore, and there are no mains power from electricity company, but latter is not for long, they are fixing their stuff too. Why should we move?
Regular village, with forest, fields, log or stone houses and all that stuff. Just with temporary centralized power outage, which is not a rare thing, really, you know, that trees sometimes fall on wires or ice builds or wind, or somebody break power pole with tractor, so everybody prepared.
No, even a few weeks without electricity will not be even close to awful disaster here. Towns are more vulnerable, of course, but I don't think it will be total collapse too. Some shit will happen in some places, but nothing critical. As electricity will be fixed everything will return to norm.
Humans live without any electricity only 150 years ago, and that was not hell on earth. And even modern snowflakes will certainly survive a week or even a month without electricity.
We have a proverb - "devil is not as scary as they paint him", in the sense that things you don't dealt with often exagregated and when you really meat them, you find out that everything could be resolved, fixed or defeated easier than they told you.