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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
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The guy in the video is sober to ther point of beeing boring - but he is right with all he said.
Being prepared, is reasonable. Like driving a car with a 5 or 10 l reserve canister of gas on your backseat. Or travelling a desert with that additional extra bottle of sweet water in your rucksack. Or locking your housedoor before leaving the place.
I am stored up for 90 days of comfortable life and eating and drinking, cooiking and heating and caring for sanitary needs, if rationizing, even longer. But I planned for my parents as well who are older and not as interested in doing this kind of thing anymore, so when dividing stuff by three, its enough for around 30 days, 4-5 weeks. Which is a reasonable timeframe, i would say. Neverending zombie-doomsday apocalypse is not what I had on mind.
I also have a bug out bag, a love from my travelling times in the nineties. There is an active nuzclear plant eat-northeast of Münster, Lingen, and the wind often comes from right that direction. There is a bttery of old, some very critical nuke plants in the Western plkaces of Belgium and Francer. And switched-off nuclear plants still could turn into hazards. The bag is packed with urban needs on mind, not living in the wilderness. But I can grab basic stuff and jump start for evacuation within 5 minutes and holding out by my own means for 48 hours, in urban environment or in nature.
Also, as a matter of fact, a national or continental blackout is anything but unreasonable. Since the German "Energiewende", the powergrid in Germany - once praised or being the possibly most stable one in the world - has become increasingly shaky, and there is, since years, not a single week, without critical events and incidents that are caused by too much heat, too much cold, overproduction, short: by ammounts of balancing acts needed that put enormous stress on the electric infrastrastructure of the whole continent and that pushes more and more often to the brink of collapse. Our neighbouring states are so very thankful for the stupid germans hysterically destroying their powergrid stability for surreal
Angst, by that negatively influencing and compromsing the powergrid stability of the whole continent. I have to go back to my pre-school childhood to remember the last time I expoerienced a short power blackpout, it must have been in the early 70s. But since some years, micro blackouts, lasting less than a second, are back, two this year, three last year, two in the year before. The last one is just days ago. I have not seen that for around 45 years! Taken for themselves they look as harmless, singular irrelevant events. But in the bigger picture, they send a clear message of that the power supply in germany is fastly detoriating, and that the powergrid on many days of the year work on the very brink of disaster. And if we have one day of blackout, the consequences of that will be felt for WEEKS to come even if after 24 hours power is back. Thanks to globalization, disassembling of stockpiled reserve management and just-on-demand supply of ressources. The length of production and logistic chains will function like a catalysator for the negative effects of a blackout. And for itself, you cannot just switch off and on a powergrid of a nation or continent just from one hour to the next - some steps ake DAYS of preparation, and that means regions will lack electricity even days after the blackout already has '"ended". - In the ealry 00-years we had a severe winter her ein the Northwestern German region, around my hometown, electricity and heating went off for I think 2-3 days. And that already was when the grid had plenty of reserve structures and capacities - which it does not have these days anymore.
People just do not think about it, because it makes you feel the fundamental and growing insecurity we have to live in. But there is no freedom without self responsibility. If you always demand the state to care for every little detail, you just sell away both your self responsibility and your freedom. And your ability to do things yourself you sell away anyway. You become a dependant, weak lamb.
