I’d like to be optimistic and say we’d have about a week before things started getting Mad Max-y out here in the suburbs.

I routinely tell my wife I'm ready to assume the rank of neighborhood warlord if things go tribal.

Some parts of the country are going to be more resilient than others.

I grew up 45 minutes away from Boston and all of the neighbors had standby generators. Even more have wood stoves. Water is abundant. Actually a lot of the old houses were built pre electrification or shortly after so there’s no limit to how long you could survive without the grid.