I'm thinking about how one would prepare for a partial, i.e., local, breakdown of the electricity grid. (What the yokels call a "black out", which it isn't.) I'm *not* thinking about a (nationwide) blackout in the proper sense of the word, with power plants decoupling themselves from the national grid and a nationwide shutdown of large parts of the infrastructure like utilities, sewage, electricity, banking, retail, etc. thereof. The difference: A power outage is local and can be restored in days or weeks; a blackout is a nationwide shutdown (of infrastructure) that is not fixed in days or weeks but takes years. I don't think that preparing for a blackout makes any sense.

So, how to prepare for a power takeout that may last for, say, two weeks? That is: How to get around the two follies of a) antisocial prepper behaviour, and b) succumbing to the fear and panic in face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles? The first creates egoistical attitudes; the latter may lead to paralysis of thought and action.

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