The Big One

[ysabetwordsmith]

 I found another interesting article about The Big One.

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[kengr]

I'll almost certainly be one of the casualties. I could muddle thru for a while on food. Water might be a problem. and I can handle many of my meds.

What will kill *me* will be the loss of power. I've got sleep apnea. so if the power goes, I don't sleep. I may pass out for varying periods, but I won't get any *rest*.

In at most, a few weeks, I'll be useless to myself or anybody else.

So unless I could miraculously get evacuated, I won't make it.

And I'm far from alone in having lack of power be a killer. Unlike some things, you can't really stockpile power. Solar cells would be about the only possibility, but even the small amount of power I'd need is horribly expensive. :-(

Still I can survive a lot of *other* disasters ok.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>What will kill *me* will be the loss of power. I've got sleep apnea. so if the power goes, I don't sleep. I may pass out for varying periods, but I won't get any *rest*.<<

That sounds like a good reason to move somewhere the risk is more localized. The Midwest may lose a whole town to a tornado, but not a whole state.

>>So unless I could miraculously get evacuated, I won't make it.<<

Well, your fuse is weeks long, not minutes or days like some people. You'd have a good chance of evacuation precisely because your problem wouldn't kill you quickly, but would kill you slowly. That's the kind of person rescuers can save and would be looking for, so if you could make it until they got there, they would try to get you out. Whether they could is another story, of course.

>>And I'm far from alone in having lack of power be a killer. Unlike some things, you can't really stockpile power. Solar cells would be about the only possibility, but even the small amount of power I'd need is horribly expensive. :-( <<

Stockpile, no; produce, yes. While it's risky to run things on calories in a survival situation, most Americans are packing a lot of fat-batteries. Do you know how to rig up electrical supply from a bicycle? If not, consider learning. In a total disaster scenario, there will be loose crap everywhere that can be scavenged and used, and lots of people. Put them together and you can have power, which can save lives.