No electric for six months

[Viker]

No, I live in a major city. Things would fall to **** very fast. We'd murder each other over the lack of WiFi.

And no Starbucks. It's be the extinction of civilization.

 

[Aupmanyav]

We'd murder each other over the lack of WiFi.

We murder each other even for sanitary paper.

 

[ChristineM]

Could you survive without electric for six months?
Three months?
Three days?

We get power cuts often enough to be independent of electricity for up to a day, maybe two which is the maximum time the freezers do their job of keeping food frozen. After that maybe a couple of days before the food goes off.

Gas or bbq cooking.

Log fire in winter.

The biggest problems would be phones and internet.

Filling up the car? Fuel is pumped from underground tanks using electric pumps.
E-vehicles will be unable to charge.
So transport would be either shanks's pony, bicycle or horse.

People survived without electricity for hundreds of thousands of years, I'm pretty sure we can manage with difficulty.

But...
We have solar panels and UPS, the above is without these. With them makes the question moot

 

[Erebus]

The temperature in England kills people every year in both winter and summer. While most of the year is relatively mild, we tend to get short but vicious cold snaps and heat waves.

I might be able to survive 6 months but it's not something I'd put money on.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I would not like to do with out any of the main services. but if you have to, you find a way.

My parents bought a farm just after WW2 and it had no services at all. not even a telephone we survived just fine. six months later we had Our own spring water supply, a large diesel generator and a new cess pit. it was five years before we were on mains electricity and connected to mains water. The phone was the first to be connected. but we had to pay extra to bring it a mile from the nearest connection.

 

[pearl]

Let me clarify... "I mean no electric, anywhere for 6 months!"

If I were wealthy enough, I'd buy a large generator.

 

[Revoltingest]

Give me the right clothing and a knife, and I survive in the forest.

With the right gear, I could survive in a grocery store.

 

[syo]

What's your primary food source?

I hope meat. Or acorns.

 

[Stevicus]

I suppose I could still hunt for roadrunner, since catapults don't require electricity.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Donner,,, Dalmer.. Is there a connection?

Yeah. They're coworkers, along with Dander, Bambi, and Blintzes.

Survival tip.... Live close to a grocery store

This guy would agree with you. Warning - some salty language.

But to answer your question, I'm assuming that you mean not just no electric utility for hundreds of miles or more as might happen after a coronal mass ejection frying the grids covering much of a continent, but no ability to get electricity even with solar panels or generators. I have nothing to add to what you've read already. I could survive if not assaulted and had access to food and water, but would be uncomfortable. I think that's true for most of us. Maybe if you need dialysis or various medications to survive, you might have difficulty.

 

[Aupmanyav]

If I were wealthy enough, I'd buy a large generator.

Then you will need to go to the city for petrol and probably need a car for that. Or a mechanic if anything goes wrong with the generator. We get embroiled in wants and more wants.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Then you will need to go to the city for petrol and probably need a car for that. Or a mechanic if anything goes wrong with the generator. We get embroiled in wants and more wants.

Run out from steam or a water wheel or wind mill. That is all there was in the 18 century and earlier.