What IF

[Tina]

Originally Posted by Esther

Have you ever played the what if game?

I keep thinking about a post that JA made sometimes back about being more concerned with an attack that would take kill all electronic devices.

Just suppose we lost all of our electricity. Could you survive? If so, how could you do it.

We have become a nation totally dependent on electricity. If you drink coffee do you have a way to make coffee that does not require electricity?

I know being without electricity during Hurricane Ike it was difficult for us without a generator since our water is on a well that requires electricity.

Yes, we could survive. In fact, we had a practice round several years ago when we were without electricity for two weeks due to an ice storm.

We have a gas grill & deep fryer, charcoal grill, coleman camp stove, coleman lanterns, wind up lights, wind up radios, back up heat source, lots of other survival type stuff including ways to sterilize water.

I often make "sun tea" and could easily make coffee and most anything I wanted to cook without electricity. I can make "fried" cornbread fritters to substitute for real cornbread-- and we're even going to attempt to build a outdoor oven that could be used for baking. How's that for learning to survive?

We have a pool and live near a river-- so there's our emergency water sources for laundry & bathing.... LOL

Also have a pretty good supply of water put away, that is regularly rotated.

You should read the Last Light book series by Terri Blackstock.

This thread gives me a sense of dejavu. Seems we've discussed this before....