If we had no electricity at all Marilyn and I could last quite awhile on the veggies we have in the freezers but it would get boring fast. We don't keep much meat on hand. The freezers are in the cold garage so they wouldn't warm up all that fast. We heat with two propane heaters that don't need electricity so we would stay warm. Water would be the problem now that we have a submersible pump. When we had the pump jack on the well we could belt an old tractor to the pump but that won't happen now. I do have an old military gasoline powered standby generator and about 200 gallons of gasoline so as long as it runs.
The major problem in my area is not especially we humans but more so all of the hog and turkey confinements. They now have standby generators running on propane and plenty of propane to run them but if we had a widespread power outage and the confinements had no electricity from generators 100's of thousands of hogs and millions of turkeys in my area would perish from a lack of food and water or would die from the cold when the sidewall curtains drop. This would only occur if we had a widespread extended loss of power and is very highly unlikely to happen. In my neighborhood we need to be more worried about a major blizzard. If we had a blizzard like the one we had on Jan 10th of 1975 many of those confinements would go without feed deliveries for a week or more. If the feed in the bins is low right before the storm they would run out of feed real quick.
We are very fortunate our local REC has updated our power lines with new close spanned poles and heavier conductors during the past few years to help increase the reliability of our power lines mainly because of the high reliance of power for out livestock industry. Out here on the barren plains of northwest Iowa tree limbs are not a problem. Because of this we are a little more immune from losing power though nobody is completely out of the woods.
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