The Day the Power Went Out [Speculative Fiction in the What If? Genre.] - Note: This was written by hand in pen on paper.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter Zero ~~~~~~~~~~~

 It was 4:39 AM according to the clock in the van.  I went back to sleep. When I awoke in the morning the power was still out. It stayed out.

About 3/4 of the World's population died over the next few years.

All the money in all the bank's computers vanished. No oil was pumped. No computers, telephones, TV... No gas for trucks to bring food to the city... The people that lived off the grid survived and thrived. All the stuff survived... Thank God for the Bic Lighter. Fire is Good.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~~~~~~~~~

It started to get cold. I started writing this diary using a pen on paper. (a mostly blank report from Merrill Lynch - USPS Junk Mail).

I can hear little birds. The police drove into King Salmon and Flashed Red, White and Blue Lights then drove away... A PG&E Truck drove by and then drove by again going in the other direction. Doing Recon. At this point in time I do not know if this is The End [link to doors song]

The water works at home. No Phone, No Computers, No Cooking, Heat? Unknown. Battery backup on thermostat? No Electricity.

It was rainy and windy last night but not excessively so. I could see the blinking channel lights in the bay but King Salmon was Dark.

I wonder... What IF the electricity went out worldwide forever...
Would I be one of the survivors of a Techno-Industrial Collapse? What can I do to thrive in the Post Apocalypse? What can we do?

"After the Global Economic Collapse You and I will breed a new race."
"Oh Boy! That sounds like fun!"

Or we could build Sailboats with fishing poles. Three masted schooners with large nets. Great for catching fish in a world without electricity. Feeding the People.

Or we could grow our own...

~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Two ~~~~~~~~~~

Time Passes... (What else would Time Do?)

"Well, look at that" says I staring at a glowing lightbulb...

It looks like a UFO hovering near the ceiling... and then it flew away...

Note the Turtle's Shadow on the ceiling...
as If the Turtle is Riding the UFO! 

So, This individual level 5 catastrophic event did not come to pass this time... Will Our Hero Learn from this experience and Thrive in the Post Apocalypse techno industrial wasteland?

As it turns out... NO... a couple of days later, the internet went out for a day...

Suddenlink to the rescue! Three trucks and a PG&E truck too.

Official PG&E Outages Webpage Searchable Map.
http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
at the time I typed this story, We were at the center of a known outage caused by equipment overload. Possibly an indoor marijuana farm using grow lights... Makes you wonder... 

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USA Infrastructure Crumbles while Trump Does Nothing... NOTHING! 72,000 without power in New York City... He had "Infrastructure Week" Three times without getting ANYTHING DONE. Total Loser...

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by gregvan

YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORDS IF YOU WANT TO... Everybody Chant - Lock 'em UP!, Lock 'em UP!, Lock 'em UP!, Lock 'em UP! Obvious Criminals but Somehow, Above the Law! WHY? Where is Morality? Where is Sanity? "They" say we can't Indict a Sitting President BUT You never Know What You Can Do Until You Try!

  https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/us/new-york-power-outages/index.html

New York power outages darken the Great White Way, Times Square and portions of subway system... Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was campaigning for president in Iowa, said it appears the outage was the result of a mechanical problem in the electrical grid.
"This appears to be something that just went wrong in the way that they transmit power from one part of the city to another," he told CNN. "It sounds like it is addressable in a reasonable amount of time."
The city's fire department was responding to numerous transformer fires, the first of which occurred in Manhattan on West 64th Street and West End Avenue, officials said.

I OPPOSE THE USA CYBERWAR AGAINST RUSSIA. Won't that just make them try to Attack OUR Power Grid?

Evidently the USA launched Cyber Attacks on Russia's Electric Power Distribution System. and at the same time, tens of millions of people lost power in SOUTH AMERICA. Are these two events related? Did our attack cause distruption in an unplanned location? 

Face Facts: If we had Tens of Millions of people lose power in the USA for a week, that would lead to FOOD RIOTS and basically the end of Western Civilization. Without electricity and the internet you can't buy food, gasoline or get cash out of the automatic tellers at the bank. Mass starvation... 

Why are we attacking Russia anyway? What mindless vegetable at the Pentagon ordered This War? They had to keep the details Secret from Trump because, as Commander in Chief, he might have COUNTERMANDED THE ATTACK or Leaked the Plan to the Russians... Like, Call Putin on the Phone and Commit Treason Himself... OH, that's right, it's IMPOSSIBLE for him to Commit Treason because he can retroactively declassify anything... 

The Day the Power Went Out [Speculative fiction in the What If? Genre.]

Note: This was written by hand in pen on paper.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter Zero ~~~~~~~~~~~

 It was 4:39 AM according to the clock in the van.  I went back to sleep. When I awoke in the morning the power was still out. It stayed out.

About 3/4ths of the World's population died over the next few years.

All the money in all the bank's computers vanished. No oil was pumped. No computers, telephones, TV... No gas for trucks to bring food to the city... The people that lived off the grid survived and thrived. All the stuff survived... Thank God for the Bic Lighter. Fire is Good.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~~~~~~~~~

It started to get cold. I started writing this diary using a pen on paper. (a mostly blank report from Merrill Lynch - USPS Junk Mail).

I can hear little birds. The police drove into King Salmon and Flashed Red, White and Blue Lights then drove away... A PG&E Truck drove by and then drove by again going in the other direction. Doing Recon. At this point in time I do not know if this is The End [link to doors song]

The water works at home. No Phone, No Computers, No Cooking, Heat? Unknown. Battery backup on thermostat? No Electricity.

It was rainy and windy last night but not excessively so. I could see the blinking channel lights in the bay but King Salmon was Dark.

I wonder... What IF the electricity went out worldwide forever...
Would I be one of the survivors of a Techno-Industrial Collapse? What can I do to thrive in the Post Apocalypse? What can we do?

"After the Global Economic Collapse You and I will breed a new race."
"Oh Boy! That sounds like fun!"

Or we could build Sailboats with fishing poles. Three masted schooners with large nets. Great for catching fish in a world without electricity. Feeding the People.

Or we could grow our own...

~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Two ~~~~~~~~~~

Time Passes... (What else would Time Do?)

"Well, look at that" says I staring at a glowing lightbulb...

It looks like a UFO hovering near the ceiling... and then it flew away...

Note the Turtle's Shadow on the ceiling...
as If the Turtle is Riding the UFO! 

So, This individual level 5 catastrophic event did not come to pass this time... Will Our Hero Learn from this experience and Thrive in the Post Apocalypse techno industrial wasteland?

As it turns out... NO... a couple of days later, the internet went out for a day...

Suddenlink to the rescue! Three trucks and a PG&E truck too.

Official PG&E Outages Webpage Searchable Map.
http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
at the time I typed this story, We were at the center of a known outage caused by equipment overload. Possibly an indoor marijuana farm using grow lights... Makes you wonder...