Our area has been hit by 3 major storms in the past 5 months, resulting in a loss of electricity for multiple days each time. It’s amazing how much you miss it when you can’t run water or flush a toilet for fear of flooding your basement. Oh, tossing out hundreds of dollars of food isn’t fun either.

There’s actually a company called Daily Bread that sells freeze dried foods. I’m thinking of stocking up lately. A tornado, a microburst, and a freak snowstorm all in five months–I’m guessing someone really ticked off Mother Nature or God is sending us a sign. Either way, I think we should pay attention. Who knows what’s coming next?

The latter is frighteningly easy to come by—a solar storm of sufficient size, releasing massive amounts of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, would (and has in the past) cause a total blackout. Think of everything in your life that is dependent upon electricity in some form and you can see how quickly humanity will devolve.

The hitch here is people would need to pay heed to such warnings of a storm before it hit. We would have only a matter of hours to ‘prepare’. Anyone not paying attention gets to immerse themselves in additional panic from sheer lack of knowledge. Once the storm hits there will be no way to communicate short of riders on horseback and low tech pen and paper.

The former, while perhaps not quite as likely as a global blackout, is entirely feasible. Look at how common droughts are this decade alone. Part of some larger meteorological cycle? In some small way, maybe. But carry the scenario to its absurd extreme . . . get the picture?

Oxygen is fairly plentiful, so we should all be able to breathe; water, however, can be in short supply. Mankind has fought bloody wars over ideas, over metals, over religion—wouldn’t take long for large scale killing over access to water.

Sleep well ;^)

You do have a thought provoking situation. Me as a writer I would say a run on the supply of CHOCOLATE. Can you imagine that? Women PMSing would be in hysteria, mass chaos would insue, WWIII would break out and no one would be safe!

On the other hand, my hips, tummy, thighs and butt would be better off.

On a more serious note, I think mass earthquakes would be a greater threat. We heard of Japan’s disaster and how it effected the whole country and world. We are a dominant power and if the earthquakes that are happening to us (on every coast now) were to intensify in mere weeks from each other setting off a domino effect of power outages, gas lines breaking, buildings crumbling . . . you get the picture. It would be a major issue hurting everything to some extent.

The other thing is one I’ve begin to wonder about. A world wide computer crash. How much do we rely on computers for EVERYTHING? Can you believe if a Y2K would actually happen? Computers all over the world just stopped and no one could fix them? The implications would be catastrophic! Only the older generations might be able to survive.

Thanks for the brain input today… you really got me thinking. (Dangerous for us writers at times and especially if we work on the belief of ‘what if?’.)