What do you do when society — and specifically, a society’s infrastructure — either fails because of a Random Bad Event or else because of a series of cascading calamities brought on by years of neglect.
Here’s a piece which highlights the five places in the U.S. that you absolutely don’t want to be living in when the above S hits the F.
As much as I sometimes complain about living in north Texas, we seem to be in slightly better shape than any of the above areas, although the prospect of a catastrophic power grid failure in June with no hope of repair for months does certainly give one pause. (We’re little different from Phoenix in that regard; we have little access to water and life without air conditioning doesn’t seem survivable.)
At least we Texans have one thing going for us: the chance of becoming prey to people who would take what little we have from us during calamitous times is somewhat reduced by the fact that we are not a disarmed populace — unlike, say, the Atlantic Northeast and Chicago, which are.
I know that we laugh at Europeans when they suffer from a major heat event like this previous summer; but their summers are really, really short compared to our Western states, so at least they may be able to survive a couple of months, more or less, always with the chance of seasonal rain to help. A typical eight-month-long dry Texas- or Arizona summer? Not so much.
Sobering stuff, indeed.