POL How Long Can U Last Without Electricity??

[Quark]

Okay (late edit) situation is as follows: Power has unexpectedly gone out in the whole country.
Your local power company cannot complete a black start ..... no power to come...... major cities burning..

Sorry, Just learning... will get this computer figured out about the time the next super duper xxx classs flare hits.....

Q

Original Ideas.......guess I could of had room to type more, hard to tell with the small poll boxes.....





1. One minute, will use personal selfdestruct device.....

2. 4 Hours: no running water and no heat / AC

3. 12 Hours: no water, no heat, no TB2K

4. 24 Hours: no water,heat, Tb2k, no ice, kids irritating

5. 72 Hours: no water,heat,Tb2k,you stink,no ice,kidsfighting

6. 1 Week none of above, MRE's & Twinkies gone, kidwarefare

7. 1 Month none of above, food, gasoline, propane,kids gone

8. 1 Year: going to eat the seed corn?, dug well?? garden in

9. 5 Years What's electricity, barefoot, hungry and pregnant

10. What is a poll anyway....I wont respond ever....

 

[Straycat]

11. You silly younguns with your new-fangled "electricity!



Seriously, though -
Indefinitely. That's how I prep.

It wouldn't be nearly as convenient and easy as having electricity at my fingertips, but I prep so that I can run my household without it.

 

[peekaboo]

How long can I or anyone go with out electricity? Unless you are on medical equipment that requires electricity or you run out of life extending medications, people will last as long as they need to.

It will be uncomfortable, inconvenient, back breaking work and many will go hungry, but people lasted for eons without the convinces we have now.

People on here should be ahead of the game with preping, if they aren't preped with at least the knowledge to survive then its their own fault.

Don't get me wrong I have some appliances like lamps and electric wheat grinder, but I also have back ups that don't require electricity.

 

[Garryowen]

We could probably get by for a fair amount of time. The frozen food: not so much.

 

[Gercarson]

I agree with Straycat's 11 - my family didn't have electricity until I was 12 or 13 - didn't suffer and could live easily without it.

 

[mecoastie]

Forever. I have long set my house up in this eventuality. Not that I look forward to it but we would be OK.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Got kero, water, fire wood. Oh, and live stock.

Should last as long as we need too.

lw

 

[NBCsurvivor]

I did it for three weeks a couple of years ago. Used a fair amount of my preps, but I did OK.

 

[Be Well]

What's this? I never saw it before on a poll:

Be advised that this is a public poll: other users can see the choice(s) you selected.

 

[Abdon]

other...

 

[dstraito]

It's not that I have alternate engery but that people lived before electricity and can do so now. Yes it won't be as convienent but it is very possible and mmight even be rewarding in certain circumstances.

 

[colonel holman]

One key prep question would be can you securely acquire adequate water year round without electricity?

 

[packyderms_wife]

I picked the first one because it looked so lonely there not checked!!!

My real anwser is it all depends on the time of year, am working on getting an alternative source of heat for my house, as in wood and preferably a wood cook stove as well as a wood furnace, and then we're good to go. So if it's not winter my anwser is indefinately, if it's freezing out then I'm up a creek and big time.

 

[packyderms_wife]

One key prep question would be can you securely acquire adequate water year round without electricity?

There, that's the 20 million dollar question that 300,000,000 americans need to think long and hard about!

 

[colonel holman]

There, that's the 20 million dollar question that 300,000,000 americans need to think long and hard about!

a good starting point when one builds their post STHF SOP plan

 

[packyderms_wife]

We could probably get by for a fair amount of time. The frozen food: not so much.

That's what pressure canners are for!

 

[Berean]

What's this? I never saw it before on a poll:

Be advised that this is a public poll: other users can see the choice(s) you selected.

Would like to see the answer to that question too

 

[Echo38]

live for 7 years up in MT without electric before moving back down to civilization to take care of parents wouldn't be a big deal to do it again

 

[Border guard]

+1

We used to live on an island with no running water or electricity. Just think of it as camping.

Forever. I have long set my house up in this eventuality. Not that I look forward to it but we would be OK.

 

[Publius]

We can hold out in-defiantly and we don't have any alternate power setup and we have two ponds that are spring feed and one of them stays filled even in the worst drought we've seen having lived here so water is not a problem, we do canning and have wood heat and the hand powered equipment/tools to keep going.

 

[Be Well]

Would like to see the answer to that question too

Maybe it just means the answers in general are seen; rather than it can be seen which name votes for which thing. If that makes sense.

I could live w/out electric for a long time IF hub makes/fixes the things he keeps saying he's going to make/fix...

 

[northern watch]

In the rural areas where I live, they only got electricity in the 1920's, less than 100 years.

NW

 

[almost ready]

Many folks here didn't get electricity until the 1950's and the knowhow of living without is still in living memory. That's not saying we wouldn't miss it -- LOL

Other

 

[Kritter]

Forever.

 

[Hfcomms]

Indefinitely. Have solar/battery power and a generator. However in the winter with the low sun angle power would be very sparse and limited to the water pump, LED lighting and some radios and that would be about it.

 

[summerthyme]

It means that every person's name who picked a particular box is listed under that choice when you click "view poll results"...

We don't have alternate energy (wish we did!) but we're set up so we can simply "go Amish" if we must. Sure won't enjoy it, though!

Summerthyme

 

[cooter]

welll,

it would definately take a while to get over the withdrawl of the handy things electricity provides, can still get water in the manual mode, , but will manage to get by on a few solar panels and leds, and if I can get my sheet together will at least still have my amateur radio equipment for getting info-news, if anyone is still transmitting,

 

[Taz]

Living in Florida we don't have to worry about freezing to death. Water is the key and we have a 200ft well with a hand pump. No ac would take some real getting used to. Got everything else and have BTDT so not a concern.

 

[MataPam]

Hard to say. Here on the Gulf Coast, the most likely cause will be hurricanes, and i always load up on water ahead of time. _Eventually_ I'll be in a possition where I will rewire the well and find out if the generator really will be able to start it. If so, or if it keeps raining, I'm good for months, at least.

But something else--solar storm, for instance--well, I'll be out of drinking water within days, livestock water within weeks.

 

[MataPam]

OK, in honesty I'll be jonesing for the internet within hours. But I won't die of it.

 

[Be Well]

OK, in honesty I'll be jonesing for the internet within hours. But I won't die of it.

Don't worry. We'll be so busy cooking everything from scratch on campstoves and washing clothes by hand that we won't have time to worry about the internet...

 

[Be Well]

It means that every person's name who picked a particular box is listed under that choice when you click "view poll results"...

We don't have alternate energy (wish we did!) but we're set up so we can simply "go Amish" if we must. Sure won't enjoy it, though!

Summerthyme

I can't click there, nothing to click...?

We have alternative energy - candles, oil lamps, flashlights with rechargeable batteries, two solar panels to run the well pump, and some propane for the small propane stove. And wood for the wood stove. Does that count for alternative energy?

 

[Dare7]

I don't vote on public polls but that doesn't matter this time as none of the options apply to me. Short term, I'm fine. Food, water, heat, lighting, etc. - all good. I don't fare very well during summer outages as I'm extremely heat intolerant so I generally wind up staying at a friend's place who has a whole house natural gas generator (the wife is afraid of the dark and we don't get along very well) if my kids' power is down, too! That would work for a week or two ...

But, I can't afford the alternative energy equipment to keep my O2 generator running in a long term/permanent outage so after my manual back up tanks run dry, I wouldn't last long if I couldn't get replacements. OTOH, my children & grandchildren have been learning the skills necessary to live a lifetime without electricity since they were toddlers.

 

[Bad Hand]

I lived for 12 years without electricity and it wasn't all that hard.

 

[mbabulldog]

so, are we talking about an event (emp, etc.) which takes away everyone's ability to generate electricity i.e. no solar, generators, wind, etc., or "oops, the transmission lines are shooting blanks"?

I have redundancy for electrical production, at least long enough to keep the freezer going until we can eat our way through the contents. after the gas/solar exhausts or breaks, we're on freeze-dried and canned goods, including several-hundreds gallons of water.

after that, well, who knows...hopefully we'll have outlasted the majority of the masses and we can survive on what's left.

 

[Quark]

Thanks for the explanation summerthyme:

I wondered what would happen if I checked that button which asked if I wanted the results of the poll private or not.........My mistake and I apologize to all you guys and gals..... Next Poll will be set to private,,,, kay?

Just another dum Farangi, Quark

It means that every person's name who picked a particular box is listed under that choice when you click "view poll results"...

We don't have alternate energy (wish we did!) but we're set up so we can simply "go Amish" if we must. Sure won't enjoy it, though!

Summerthyme

 

[Quark]

Yes, sorry I should of said, live without Line power..... solar wind and gensets will work for some variable time after power company goes out for what ever reason ( ie no "Black start" ability after emergency shut down)

Quark

so, are we talking about an event (emp, etc.) which takes away everyone's ability to generate electricity i.e. no solar, generators, wind, etc., or "oops, the transmission lines are shooting blanks"?

I have redundancy for electrical production, at least long enough to keep the freezer going until we can eat our way through the contents. after the gas/solar exhausts or breaks, we're on freeze-dried and canned goods, including several-hundreds gallons of water.

after that, well, who knows...hopefully we'll have outlasted the majority of the masses and we can survive on what's left.

 

[Ice]

Well I think I could last for awhile I have a propane cooking stove plus a propane fireplace, I also have 2 kerosene heaters for back up 3 generators ( 2 honda's 2000 watts ) 1 honda 5400 watts

Plenty of food and just today as a back up in case we cannot get propane to cook
I got these the stove and the BBQ I also got the car adapter to save on batteries
I will get a spare battery with a solar charger

http://vitalgrill.com/en/

ICE

 

[pete5555]

i dont understand without electricity there would be no tv no movies no lamps no light
no public utilities no modern health care. millions would suffer greatly and possibly die

 

[Landcruiser]

I live in a suburban environment... therefore it has nothing to do with how well I prep and everything to do with how long I can keep everyone else convinced that I have nothing and am not eating... before I get shot because someone else believes I have food to feed them or their children... let alone having enough drinking water from streams that, although clean now, every one will be using for everything and will become completely contaminated.