The World Will Always Change and Will Change Suddenly Without Warning. Collect Your Thoughts And Begin To Make a Plan For How You’ll Move Forward

Preparing for disaster is something everyone should be doing.  The catastrophes of Hurricane Katrina, wildfires in the western United States, the Zika virus scare in Florida, and floods in Louisiana are clear examples of why it is important to be prepared in the event of natural and man-made disasters.  One of the most important things you can do to ensure some degree of quality of life in the midst of such disaster is to be able to flip a light switch and have the light actually come on.  Just this simple luxury in a time when your entire world has been turned upside down is enough to allow you to catch your breath and collect your thoughts and begin to make a plan for how you’ll move forward in dealing with the disaster – and perhaps even be able to turn your attention not towards your own survival, but towards helping your neighbors who may be in distress.

Some of you are no doubt concerned about existential threats as well, like drastic negative changes in society like an economic collapse, or virus outbreaks, or an asteroid strike.  There no shortage of evidence that these things happen, some frequently and some not so much.  But you know the chance truly exists that something on this scale will happen, eventually.  And, frankly, it’s not really a matter of chances.  It will happen.  The record is clear.

But in the event of a power grid failure—and we have more than our fair share here in the U.S.—your survivalist savvy may be all for naught.

While you may think that blackouts are few and far between, and you don’t need an article to tell you what to do and how to prepare, the reality is that they’re a pretty common occurrence. Because of the United States’ aging infrastructure, our rapidly increasing population, and a growing number of extreme weather events, the number of major grid failures (more than 50,000 households affected) in our country is doubling roughly every four years. In the early 2000s, large-scale grid outages occurred about 45 times per year, or around 3 per month across the entire country (surprising how low it is, isn’t it?). Now, there are large-scale outages almost daily.

Power outages are not an emergency that is geographically confined. Everyone, in every part of the country….[Read and the rest of the article HERE]