Could you survive without electricity?

Those are 3 real good answers. I agree I believe we could make it if we were forced to. When I was a kid I didn't live in a house that had electricity until I was about 14. We made it fine but we were equipped for it, now we are not. Our houses were designed to live with wood heat and cook on wood. Now they are not and you will burn up in the average house now with no air conditioning. Our house is total electric and so are a lot of others. We would have very little that worked. We would have no choice but install a cook stove and a heater that didn't use electricity. That would mean heating water for a bath or doing laundry probably in the open out side. Also you would have to do the laundry by hand and hang the cloths outside to dry. No running water. A well bucket on a long rope and a drilled well would probably be the only way to get water. Most people would be out of work because the places they work couldn't operate without electric. The same for food stores. The super markets would have to hire a bunch of extra people and go back to the old way of doing business. They wouldn't be able to sell anything that would spoil. You probably wouldn't be able to buy gasoline for the car either. It takes electricity to pump the fuel in the truck that brings the gasoline to the retailer and then to pump it into your car. Fire departments would be almost useless. The water they could get out of a creek and haul on a truck is all they would have at a fire. I don't know how others view this but to me it looks like we have put all our eggs in one basket and that basket has a big hole in the bottom of it. I believe if we actually had a terrorist problem like people want us to believe we would have already see our electricity taken out. It wouldn't be hard at all for the right people with the right kind of money backing them to put this entire nation on their knees. I started this thread because I believe at some point our electric will be taken out over a large part of this nation. I also would like to see people thinking about what they would do to get through something like this. Let me know what you could do that would help you get through something like this. It would be good to share some suggestions.

hi, I am 62, and lived that way, in the 1950's. there was no inside bathroom, no heat, except a wood stove in the living room. the floors of the house, were just logs, with planks covering them, with a vinyl rug, on top of the boards. no running water, inside either, but a great spring at the bottom of the hill. you couldn't open the windows, in the summer, just the back door, and front door. there weren't any steps going up to the house, just a big rock, then the porch. no electric stove, but a great wood stove. my granny made the best biscuits, I have ever eaten. we only took a bath, in the summer, fall, and spring. never in the winter, just a pan bath. what I mean, by a pan bath, you just wash, your face, under arms, then towel dry. in the warmer months, you heated water, on a open flame, and took a bath outside, in a galvanized tub. no refrigerator, either, a smoke house, with salted meat. fresh eggs, from the hen house. sausage, from the smoke house. we did have to go to town for flour and other things, like soda(Pepsi). there was 3 beds, one in the living room, the others, in other rooms. I remember when I was 10, during one winter, ice, on the inside of the windows, but it sure was warm in the house. I really miss all that, believe it or not. larry

Well I'll try this again. I tried to reply to this post and lost everything. you are right salt is the one thing you would have to stock up on. It wouldn't hurt to have a couple of large plastic garbage cans with tight lids full of salt stashed back where it would stay dry. Eben if it caked up you could break it up with a hammer as you needed it and it would be as good as ever. A person would also need to stock up on the things to start a fire. A case of kitchen matches plus several bottles of lighter fluid, several packs of flints and half dozen good Zippo lighters. I don't think I would have much luck starting a fire with two sticks. If you can have fresh water for drinking and cooking and a little food and a way to build a fire you can make it. It is just about impossible for most people to even imagine something like this happening in this country but it can. In a couple of weeks we could all be in one heck of a mess wondering if we were going to survive. If our food supply dried up what we have now would be gone before you could spit.

The people in Washington are only concerned about the things that put money in their pockets and campaign funds to get them reelected. They will do what ever it takes to keep the oil companies happy. Even if it means hurting the American People.