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I lived with out electricity for almost three weeks in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. I washed my clothes in a swimming pool and bathed in a creek. Three weeks with no lights, A/C or running water. By that third week we had exhausted all of our food and water resources and had begun standing in lines for basic supplies. Then one day while sitting in the living room around sunset the power just turned back on. It was like a modern miracle!!
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As a Grid Operator, you are spot on and no one thinks about the little things that electricity provides. No phone services, water, natural gas, gas/diesel. All powered by electricity. That same ice storm in 2021, I was sitting pretty with a generator, working heat and enough food for a week. But knowing what I know, had it been longer, it could have been a lot worse. Be prepared.
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I went without electricity for 10 days when Sandy hit in 2012. I almost feel guilty writing how it was an amazingly positive experience. A few neighbors had generators so we had hot coffee every morning (it was cold outside!) everyone worked together and we all considered it a forced āvacationā. But that was because we had trust that our town would take care of us. And they did. We went to Target with flashlights and paid cash for supplies. We gave snacks and drinks to the electric company employees who worked 24/7 out in the cold. When I look back, it was a positive memory but I can totally see things going ābadā if we didnāt get power backā¦
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Itās scary how vulnerable we are to the system.
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My father was an electrical engineer who designed power distribution systems in rural areas. He was always very concerned with the fact his industry and the government never seemed to take the threat of attacks on the system, or a system wide blackout, very seriously.
He actually worked on a set of proposed guidelines to harden certain infrastructure. No one cared until 9/11 happened, and he actually had DHS call him (when it was brand new) because there was no guidance for that kind of thing, they had to start somewhere.
I often think of what he would have thought of the way things are now, because he was obsessed with providing reliable electricity. He'd be livid I'm sure. But he would have enjoyed this video a great deal.
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Hey! Iām a Transmission operator at a utility in texas. I worked through the storm and it wasnāt pretty. A lot is going on in the background to keep things going. We were in charge of shedding firm load at the request from ERCOT. It wasnāt an easy job. We knew what we had to do but it was also in the back of our minds that we were effectively putting people back into the Stone Age in freezing temps. It still messes with me to this day. TSOs are also responsible for black starting the grid once it goes down. We have extensive process and procedures to do that and we train twice a year on a simulator to hone our skills. God forbid the grid ever does go down, but you can be assured a great group of people are behind the scenes doing everything possible to get the lights back on. Even on a normal day, with planned switching something bad can happen and bring down a part of the grid. Itās up to us to make sure that doesnāt happen. We donāt settle for being perfect only 98% of the time. We HAVE to be perfect 100% of the time.
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We lost power during that winter storm in Texas and we were NOT prepared. Ever since Iāve been storing water, wood, non perishables, everyday essentials ect. Out of all our immediate relatives we were the only ones who lost power and really felt the impact. We ended up going to my in-laws on day 3 without power. Iāll never forget how angry my father in law made me when I voiced how the whole ordeal made me realize how unprepared we were. He made the comment āoh this will never happen againā I was enraged. It made me prep even more and Iāve never stopped. Long story short that event shook me up enough to get my house in order.š¤·š½āāļø
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It was rough and I have a backup generator. Some friends of ours, an elderly couple, were out of power for 3 weeks. I took over a bunch of firewood and meals and we took hot coffee daily. This wonderful woman made 3 square meals a day in a Dutch oven set in the fireplace and shared food with us every time we came over. We all helped each other but learning to be more self sufficient is invaluable.
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I live in Hong Kong, last year there was a total blackout occurred in a town of 300,000 population due to a power facility was on fire. In densely populated area like Hong Kong, especially when most people here had never live without electricity, the society show signs of breaking in a matter of hours. People were very worried and some even started crying on the street after about an hour without electricity and communication service. Because we house thousands of people in a single building and buildings are packed closely together. People who cannot go home due to the lack of working elevators, some of us cannot buy food and water immediately because we rely on electronic payment so heavily that we donāt have cash. Even for those who have cash, most stores do not trade because their cashier is connected via network and didnāt work properly. Those people started to break down and disrupt society order within a very short period of time. Luckily there were signs of power grid recovery and phone service were totally recovered within a few hours, otherwise the affect on human can cause more damage than the power outage itself. I think you may want to explore that issue in this series too.
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I weathered Snowpocalypse in Texas. I had food, gas heat, and a generator and did just fine. I did travel outside my neighborhood to get more gas for my generator and it was immediately apparent that we were close to having a total breakdown in order because no stores had power. I could see the panic on peopleās faces and in how they were acting.
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We went through the outage in Texas. We lived out in a rural area an hour south of Houston. As the storm started to move in but it hadn't gotten to the peak yet, and they shut us all off out where we lived. They had us off for almost 3 days. Even running our fireplace and shutting off the living room as our "hold up" location, we couldn't get above 50 degrees. The second full day without power, the water in the toilet bowl was frozen solid.
The failure of the system was an eye opener, "they" don't actually care about "us" as long as they have theirs. While I don't feel that the answer to much is to trust, believe in or ask the government for help.
Be prepared to self rescue, no one is coming.
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As a professional engineer who works for a water and sewer utility in northern Virginia, I can tell you that we conduct tabletop exercises all the time designed to simulate our response to events just like this. We also "game out" other events, such as water contamination in the Potomac River, contamination of water already in the distribution system, floods, fires, hurricanes, snow storms, transmission main breaks, and all manner of "Force Majeure" events that could potentially disrupt service to our customers. A lengthy outage in the power grid is certainly crippling, but it's not the only scenario that could potentially deprive water and sewer service to people who normally take it for granted, thanks to the hard work of highly trained, skilled employees whose work seldom is even noticed by their customers (unless something goes wrong).
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I live in Oklahoma and experienced a power outage that lasted for 20 and some odd days due to a major ice storm a long while back. Iāll never forget the soundsā¦shortly after the rain started and the temperatures dropped, the electricity failed. A few hours after that I stepped outside on my front porch. It was eerily quiet. Nothing much more than the incredibly soft sound of the freezing rainā¦at first, that is. All around me I started to hear loud cracks and popping sounds. It dawned on me fairly quickly that those sounds were coming from the woods in which my home was located. Branches, and shortly after entire trees, were snapping due to the weight of the ice that was accumulating everywhere. Trees were falling all around the area. Roads were blocked with branches and treesā¦not that getting around on the ice covered streets was even possibleā¦let alone safe. Eventually my roof gave way in a number of places as trees were falling on my home. Holes in the roof, windows broken, cars trapped, and not much that could be done about it. It was so bizarre hearing not the background noise that everyone no longer really hearsā¦but only the sound of the outside world breaking and crashing down. People were gathering in groups in houses that had fireplaces and other means of keeping warm. Houses were filled with three or four families. People were having to trek through the fallen trees to check on family, friends, and neighbors. Ambulances were parked and the EMTs were carrying stretchers with patients strapped to them for long distances over the accumulated debris. It was rather difficult for a lot of people, and really made people understand just how fragile things really are.
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For SHTF comms, is why I was SO against getting rid of AM radio for widespread use. FM and even digital FM can easily be knocked out, or blocked, but AM is only as strong as the signal driving it. It may not be crystal clear, but easily audible enough with its simplicity to be useful.
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A perfect storm is brewing in the United States. Inflation, bank collapse, severe drought in the agricultural belt, recession, food shortages, diesel fuel and heating oil shortages, baby formula shortages, available automobile shortages and prices, the price of living place. It's all coming together and it could lead to a real disaster towards the end of this year (or sooner). With inflation currently at about 6%, my primary concern is how to maximize my savings/retirement fund of about $300k which has been sitting duck since forever with zero to no gains.
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I lived without electricity for the first seven years of my life and I remember it well. We farmed with a horse and plow, had an outhouse, a smokehouse, a woodpile for the woodstove, a well that we hand pumped and carried water inside and had kerosene lamps at night. I realize we bought gasoline for the car we had but the old wagon that they had used until I was born still sat outback. Life was good in a different way then. I don't think many people now would know how to do that anymore.
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Society is far more fragile than any of us want to believe
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I was the IT and facilities manager at a mid sized suburban fire department for 17 years. I had six stations which obviously are critical infrastructure. We had fixed mount commercial generators at each location with enough fuel for several days (not going to say exactly). We'd test run the generators every two weeks and take the load of the buildings for an hour. We also had our own above ground diesel and gas tanks with several days supply at high load on site which had hand crank emergency pumps (double redundant). I felt our weakest link was domestic water supply and I even proposed drilling a well at our HQ station. There is a saying in emergency services and preparedness: you can live 3 minutes without oxygen, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. Use that to guide your priorities. Excellent video!
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Itās hard to believe how fragile everything is until itās broken down in such a detailed way like this! Makes me thankful for everything when I watch this channel. Thank you!
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