Natural disasters, storms, solar events, cascading equipment failure and cyber attacks could shut down local or regional power supply. Possibly for many days, or even weeks. We take the advice from those who have been through black out situations, and bring this to you here:
What do you do when the power goes out?
ADVICE FOR INDIVIDUALS and RESIDENCES:
1) Stay together and do not panic
Research shows that in a disaster most of us want to help others. It is not until a crisis or disaster drags on, that must of grow desperate. Dale Jobes, director of the Energy Huntsville Initiative, is quoted in a 2011 article from Popular Mechanics saying her experience with no power after tornados deveastated the grid in her town,
"All of a sudden you had to be neighbors, whether you wanted to or not,"Everybody was sharing everything they had in their freezers because the food was going to go bad. It was a really neat dynamic."
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