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When I was 19 I was an insurance agent and dating this girl whose father was part of the mob. He had made it very clear that I was to stay away from his little girl with a restriction order as a gentle reminder.One night she called me and told me her dad was going to be spending the night because of ice storm here in Cleveland, Ohio and that I could spend the night with her so without any thought of the pending ice storm I left from work and went to see her for the festival of sexual desire that had been building up.I arrived in my tailored suit and tie with a long London Fog coat wearing very expensive Florsheim shoes. I was dressed for power and success so people could hand over wads of cash to me while feeling safe.She invited me in and and within minutes we were 2 naked lovers filled with contempt for being separated and we did unspeakable things to make up for it.We worshiped each other’s bodies like sacred totem poles and cursed the very existence of her father. We made sacred oaths to each other that night that we would be together and that she would get pregnant that very night as we went for as long as we could until we fell asleep mating in every room.That night we slept as Adam and Eve with not a care in the world and dedicated to conceive life that night. As she would be 18 in just a few months and life would change, she would be pregnant and I would marry her, it was a deep and restful sleep I fell into.I was woken up with her screaming and shaking me that her father was home and I had to leave now so she pushed my naked body out the window and on to the roof and into the ice storm with temperatures below zero.At the last second I grabbed my jacket the London Fog and tried to stay calm on top of this 35 ft slanted iced roof top . My mind was still trying to comprehend what had just happened but soon the sting of the cold was letting me know exactly what had taken place.She whispered he is probably drunk and will go right to sleep, as soon as he does I will come back for you and you can go out the front door, and with all the love someone could show in their face she said I love you, and the window shut and the lights went off and so I waited on top of this roof at 5:45 AM.I was naked under this jacket and my feet were freezing and so I started to rip the inside lining of the jacket to wrap my feet. Soon my ears were on fire and so with all my strength I started to rip the pockets out and used them to cover my ears, but the wind was brutal and my naked body was taking damage, so I took the wool belt from the jacket and wrapped my nose and face with it.I made it about 45 minutes and then it really hit me, that if I did not get off the roof I was going to die.It had become a life and death situation and so I started towards the window but it would not open and so I tapped on it hoping my girl would awake but she did not and than I knocked and soon was pounding on it and I saw her though the window shaking her head no.At that point I panicked and realized I needed to scoot to the end of the roof and hang down and jump or try to climb down I was not sure what I was going to do only that I needed to get down now.With every step I took the ice cracked and echoed and the roof shattered with the sound of glass and soon every light was coming on inside the condos.Within a few minutes I could see a snake of red and blue lights coming down this curved road and getting in trouble was the least of my worries.It was the police and fire department and they with a flash light spotted me on top of the roof and got the ladder up to get me down.I was so cold I could not talk, my tears had frozen to my face and they took me to the emergency room where I was treated for hypothermia .No charges were pressed against me but I never forgave that girl for leaving me out on the roof to die and I never heard or spoke to her again despite that I was heart broken and she might have been pregnant with my child but I would never know.As fate would sometime have it some 20 years later my Aunt had sold her house in Avon, Ohio and she told me the woman's name and I got this sick feeling in my stomach as my eyes went wide open.I asked what does this lady look like and she told me it looks like she might have been caught in a fire as her face was somewhat disfigured and that she had 2 kids one boy with autism and the other a teenage girl.My heart sank and yet I felt some feelings of revenge and then thought what if the kids were mine but the ages were not right so I was safe.One night several years later I drove by taking my elderly parents out for dinner and saw her sitting on the porch, her hair was the same but the face was wrecked and even from a distance you could tell something was wrong.And so it happend, I drove over that night and as I got out of the car she told her teenage daughter to watch the boy and she ran over to me and hugged me and said she was sorry. I held her in my arms for a very very long time and she did not let go.She said looking right in my eyes life has not been very kind to me as you can see. I said what happened to you ?She said that her mother had committed suicide in the mental ward where she was living out her years for alcoholism and so she was forced to go back to her stepfather, the one who worked for the mob and he caught her doing his coke and rubbed her face in it and then came close with a lighter and by accident it flashed and caught the side of her face and nose.She said he did not mean it, that he only meant to scare her. And she said he pays her every month so she can live on her own but that now she was studying to become a nurse with his help.She asked me to spend the night, but I wanted to run; it was to much for even me but I took a deep breath and decided to stay; we talked for hours and I could see her kids loved her and that her smile and soft way about her was still intact.There would be no magic festival of love that night, just a wonderment of what life might have been with the plans we had started to create .I left the next morning and never went back.

When you turn 65 years old, what will matter to you in life?We are given a very short fuse on this earth. Usually, the average is about 80 years. Some live a little longer, some a little less. Regardless, it's all over with in a blink of an eye. In our youth, we are all want to leave this earth better than what we found it. If they can write on your tombstone: “The world is a better place because he/she once walked upon it” then you have accomplished what you have been put here to do.The most important question you should ask yourself is "What have I done that 80 or so years while I walked on the face of the Earth?" The choices you made define if the life you lived was worthy of things to come. I am not trying to get psychic here, but what you have accomplished, no matter how small can leave the biggest footprint on the sand. Shakespeare wrote plays. It was a pretty remarkable body of work and critics are still talking about the man. Sometimes, someone throws some paint of a canvas and we have a work of art. At the time, it probably was to make a few shekels and guys like Rembrandt or DaVinci had no idea they were creating a piece for the ages. Two brothers in a bicycle shop in Akron Ohio thought it would be nice to soar with an Eagle. After creating a glider, they hung an engine on it and changed the course of aviation history. Things sometimes just happens. Our lives will never be that monumental, but we can leave something far more important than a book of poems or a painting on an easel. We can leave a treasure far more valuable than the greatest fortune ever accumulated. We can leave in imprint in the sand that we once walked upon this earth.About a Third of all children born today are born in single family homes. That's a bunch. About one-third of U.S. children are living with an unmarried parent The want and need of a family unit is strong. It goes back tens of thousands of years, all the way to the cave men era where groups huddled together in a cave to keep warm. Children want and need role models and strong decisive influence on their lives to tell them and show them what to do. If they don't get it in a home environment, they seek it out on the streets. Usually, this means a gang. Doesn't matter which sex, male or female, they both need guidance and a strong figure to center their thinking. It's a cruel world out there. You can make a difference.Just about every neighborhood has a Boys and Girls Club. Look it up in a phone directory or google it. Volunteer. You could be the difference between someone laying dead in the streets or being a productive member of society. Homeless problems are becoming legendry. It's not just Los Angeles or San Francisco that has tent cities. Every major town in America has a similar problem. Again, you can make a difference in the lives of someone that simply needs a shower, or a hair cut or a blanket. A friend of mine found a discarded Port A Potty unit from a construction site. He mounted it on a Harbor Freight little towable trailer. Bought a propane tank from a Bar-B-Que. place and hooked it up to a hot water heater. Stuck a holding tank from a junk yard of a motor home on the bottom of the Porta John and bingo, he had a hot shower that towed behind his car. He bought a stack of used towels from Good Will and the next thing he knew, there were people who had their self esteem back. A simple Gesture, but it made a difference right down in the slums.It doesn't take much for an individual to write a check to some charity that will more than likely use the bulk of it for administrative cost and very little will go to the ones who really need it. It is far more important for someone to think outside of the box and do something that directly results in effecting someone's life. Go to a nursing home, the country is full of them. Ask the front desk if there are any residents that have not had a visitor in six month. Go read them a poem. A book or even simply take in the newspaper and read it to them. You will know almost immediately the impact you had on one single life.Christmas came early for me this year. It started on Monday. I bought 55 hams, all on sale at the largest food store. I had to go to a number of them to use the coupons I got out of the paper. Some spotted me but didn't seem to mind once I told them what I was doing. Stopped by Fire stations and Satellite Police Departments and asked for the names of people that might not have a Ham this Christmas. Took three days to distribute it. Any one can write a check to some charity. Takes some work in making sure that your dollars get to the right places. Knock on doors. Tell them Santa came early. Everyone understand Santa’s generosity.Spend some time with your kids. They will remember it someday. Spend as much time as you can with your Grand Children. They will remember you for a lifetime. That's what you do when you turn 65.

(*WARNING: LONG ANSWER*)Part 1: Localised DestructionOoooooh mama here we go!Now this question can be interpreted in a multitude of different ways (In my opinion), being that the world goes through either a.) an event which causes a significant proportion of the global population to lose access to a functioning power grid, which could be limited to a large country or region or b.) the overwhelming majority of the global population loses access to a functioning power grid, a truly worldwide catastrophe.For both of these scenarios, I’m going to try to delve as deep as I dare and examine how this will not only affect the nation, but you, the average Joe, sitting there reading this on your device to distract you from the fact you’ve actually got a boatload of work waiting for you somewhere (it’s ok, no need to study for that final, Quora is the real priority).In this answer, I’m gonna solely focus on scenario A and save B for later, depending if people can tolerate an answer as long as this!And before we start, here’s the criteria for what stipulates a major blackout as per Dr. Wikipedia;“The power outage must conform to all of the following criteria:The outage must not be planned by the service provider.The outage must affect at least 1,000 people and last at least one hour.There must be at least 1,000,000 person-hours of disruption”Let’s start with scenario A, and bring in everyone’s favourite apocalypse guinea pig;The Good ol’ US of APopulation: 326,433,373 people (June 2017)Area: 9.834 million km²GDP: 17.95 trillion USD ‎(2015)Per capita: 55,836.79 USD ‎(2015)I think we can all agree a prolonged, sustained nationwide blackout in the States would of course be considered a global event, since we effectively have paralysed the majority of the nation which so happens to be the undisputed military and economic superpower of the 21st Century (sorry China).Of course city, state even region-wide major power outages are all too common in the United States, with Hurricane Sandy in 2012 knocking out pylons and transformers leaving over 8 million people without energy across 9 states, them being New Jersey (2.7 million), New York (2.2 million), Pennsylvania (1.2 million), Connecticut (620,000), Massachusetts (400,000), Maryland (290,000), West Virginia (268,000), Ohio (250,000), and New Hampshire (210,000). More recently, thanks to severe thunderstorms, we had a taste of that this year. On March 1st, 2017 a thunderstorm with conditions similar to that of a typhoon left over 10 million people without power all across the Eastern Seaboard. That’s 3.1% of the population of the most powerful nation on Earth left without power, all because of a single storm.These massive black outs are more common than you’d think, a quick look on the list on Wikipedia will show that. North America has had a major black out, which affects at least 1 million people at a averaging rate of 1 every other year from 1981 to 1999.There have been four multi-million person black outs on the continental United States in the past five years alone (5 if you want to count Puerto Rico, although it’s not mainland or really a state, yet).The United States has approximately 55,000 power plants throughout but as reported by the Daily Mail, America could plunge into a blackout if NINE power plants are attacked, since the US grid system is interdependent, so if one component fails, the load is placed on the next component, putting it under strain which thereby makes it more likely for the component to fail.But if multiple components fail, then you can get a rolling failure effect, a cascade of power stations going down, and with each station you lose, the more load you put on the ones that are still holding out.This is why a real life scenario with a coast-to-coast blackout is now a real possibility. This become further compounded considering attacks on power stations are frighteningly common.US Power Grid Attacked Every 4 Days; Nationwide BlackoutNew Report: US Power Grid Attacked Every 4 Days; Nationwide Blackout More Likely Than We ThoughtUnited States Power Grid Attacked Every Four Days — Nationwide Blackout Highly Expected To HappenThese statistics are based on Federal Energy records and were analysed by reporters at USA Today.These assaults range from cybernetic attacks on controlling computational systems to good ol’ fashioned physical smash n’ bash of transformers and other critical electrical infrastructure. Between 2011 and 2014, there were 348 physical attacks and 14 cyber attacks on the grid that caused outrages or disturbances, according to electric utility data reported to the US Southern Department of Energy.You’d think Uncle Sam® would respond to these pressing vulnerabilities wouldn’t you?To quote the Inquistr :“…focused more so on the part of the report in which power grid attacks may go unnoticed for several hours. This gives saboteurs plenty of time to cover their tracks and escape. An example of this is when police investigated an attack happening back in April of 2013 on a California substation until several hours after shots were fired. To this day, those attackers have never been found or identified.”With the cyber-warfare capabilities of other nations not so friendly with the US (*cough North Korea cough*) being sufficient to cause widespread havoc and even the threat of domestic cyber-terrorism, it’s a surprise the US hasn’t been sent back to the Stone Age yet.Want a bit more? To quote OfftheGridNews;“Members of the EMP Commission that reported to Congress found that if the grid is down for one year, 70-90 percent of the US — between 200 million and 285 million Americans — would be at severe risk due to starvation, a lack of medical supplies, and civil unrest. One big reason an attack would do so much damage is because there are no backup parts to much of the system; they’re custom made, and it can take weeks or months to replace them.”Jon Wellinghoff, the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said “Those critical nodes can (electrical power infrastructure), in fact, be attacked in one way or another… You have a very vulnerable system that will continue to be vulnerable until we figure out a way to break it out into more distributed systems.”He described the grid as “too susceptible to a cascading outage”, which is a nice way of saying America’s power grid security systems, they way they are now, couldn’t guard a boiled egg.You could dismiss this all as hooey and scaremongering. Ok sure, I respect that. But not even 11 hours ago (as of writing this answer), thousands of companies and organisations across the United States and Europe were crippled by the massive “Petya” cyber attack, a ransomware strain which affected massive companies like Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's largest overseas cargo carrier, and Russian oil titan Rosneft. These were among a few of the high-profile corporate victims in at least six countries.It also affected Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, and British media company WPP tweeted they had been hit by Petya. Even the behemoth law firm, DLA, was a target of this attack.That sure is a nice way to start the dayWant a bit more? In May 2017, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was rocked by a massive cyber-assault. The ransomware “WannaCry” locked down hospital computers, patient records, pharmaceutical information and caused massive disruption everywhere from GP clinics to full-blown central hospitals. This virus crippled the health service, arguably the most important and under-strain service in the nation, of the United Kingdom, a leading world power in its own right.Wanna guess who launched it? NHS cyber-attack was 'launched from North Korea' - BBC News>TFW you hack the other kids Xbox…and cripple his nations f*cking health serviceWant even more, more? This one is genuinely f*cking crazy.Terror attack plunges 140 million into darknessMassive power failure plunges 80% of Pakistan into darknessPakistan works on power blackout after 'rebel attack' - BBC NewsYou know what put 140 million people, (80% of Pakistan’s population) in darkness, what one event knocked out energy to nearly 2% of the global population in 2015?The bombing of just two goddamn pylonsYeah, these pricksRebels in Naseerabad in Pakistan bombed two pylon towers, which caused a massive backward surge in electricity and forced two nuclear power plants to go offline. This plunged the country into darkness, including the capital, Islamabad and the 25 million strong city of Karachi, not to mention Lahore airport being down, which serviced 4.7 million people in 2016, making it Pakistan’s second busiest airport.Power had to be drawn from other stations, which put enormous strain on the aged and underdeveloped power grid of Pakistan.The following is according to a ministry spokesperson, Zafaryab Khan following the attack;“The blowing up of two power pylons in Naseerabad last night created a backward surge which affected the system. It was an act of sabotage.”Think that’s a big outage? Oh you sweet summer childAllow me introduce to you the 2012 India blackouts, a series of rollings outages over two days that ultimately affected 620 million people or 9% of the world’s population in 2012. It affected 22 states and resulted in 32 gigawatts of power capacity going offline, enough to power roughly 3,200,000,000 light bulbs or roughly 26.7 time travelling DeLorean’s.The event was actually two blackouts, with the first on July 30 affecting 300 million people (the biggest in history at that point) and the second affecting another 320 million people the day after, on July 31st.This is a classic example of how several components failing and straining the rest, can ultimately break the whole system.“But James!” you say “You’re not answering the question! I don’t need more examples, just tell me how would the US react to a massive, nationwide cascading black out?”Alright then. You know how we do it here, gentlemen. Let’s go for the worst case scenario; a prolonged national power failure, with critical components destroyed by attack and a repair time of roughly 18 monthsWell friend, in this case, the American public would do the one thing that God put them on this green earth to do;FLIP THE F*CK OUTIn the event of a massive prolonged outage, especially one caused by deliberate nationwide sabotage (be it cyber or physical), it wouldn’t take long before society would degrade into chaos as people panicked and took to the streets to either demand the government take action (which they undoubtably would be racing to do), get as many supplies as they could by any means necessary (hello, mass looting!) or just to take advantage of the fact that the systems which keep society in order are now gone or at least heavily impaired as they try and organise a strategy to re-affirm order without being able to rely on anything that requires the electrical grid to operate, so bye bye cell towers, internet, Quora, online banking, stock markets, landlines, lights, and anything not backed up by electrical generators.Sure most hospitals, airports and critical government buildings have got their own power sources separate from the grid, but what happens when the diesel powering their generators runs out? How are you going to get more fuel to these places?You expect trucks and tankers full of the stuff to be able to move from refinery to city? And how are you meant to refine the crude oil you pull outta the ground? You got fractional distillers that work on magic? And if you did, could they feed the demand of the millions of cars running, plus the millions more generators you need to run so people don’t freeze? You think other countries have the capacity to send enough oil overseas, to ports that don’t have power to run or place their ships in a country in the midst of total pandemonium? Well, with the streets full of rioters and looters, good luck with that.Get ready to see plenty of these…And just how are you going to co-ordinate this massive re-fueling effort? Most communications infrastructure will be down and even if you could co-ordinate, there isn’t enough oil and generators in the world to compensate for the destruction of the majority of America’s nuclear, coal and hydroelectric plants.Keep in mind, America’s military infrastructure would be largely intact, as they’ve been strengthening and hardening their bases and silos from just about any God and all his angels can throw at them and believe me, they’re gonna be out for vengeance on whoever launched this attack.If it was domestic, expect the government to double down on everyone and play dirty as they launch the biggest manhunt the world has ever seen. And considering they can’t rely on traffic cams, ATM’s or internet tracking to find the culprits, they are going to go after anyone with the slightest whiff of being involved in this attack. Martial law, crackdowns on civil liberties, federalising and mobilising the National Guard, the whole nine yards.They’ll also be tasked with maintaining the order in the Union, contending with looters, rioters, protestors, secessionists, terrorists and just about every other nut job in the country with a gun( s̶o̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶s̶).Coming to a city near you! And also through your front door at 3 AM…If the attack was from a foreign power well then first, may they rest in peace and second, expect the Stars n’ Stripes to go into a total war mentality, akin to that of the UK and Russia during the Second World War, with the already scarce and dwindling resources on the homefront being rationed and giving priority to said scarce resources to America’s war machine, because making sure the Navy isn’t dry docked is more important than making sure you’re sorry ass has a warm bed to sleep and light to read. Of course, the nuclear option is always open since America’s ICBM and strategic missile forces sure as hell don’t rely on the electricity coming out of the plug. But that all of course depends on what the mood is of the Cheeto in Chief and how much of an atomic erection he’s got.“When I said nuke the Chinese, I meant put the take-out in the microwave!” - El Presidenté 2K17And now aside from that, onto the bad stuffWhat happens in the North, when the winter blizzards set in, bringing mountains of snow. What happens when a hurricane batters the East coast? What about tornado season in the Mid West or when an earthquake hits California while the black out is in effect? A heat wave? Enough folks already die from those now, in a world full of air conditioning. Imagine a whole summer with no AC! (Keep in mind, a coast to coast black out could take up to 18 months to recover from.)Think it’ll be fun trying to last a few weeks, months even years with no heat in a blizzard?I’d like to see you last the South with no air conditioningHow are you meant to warn people of impeding natural disasters, with no TV, phones or internet? How can you supply them, keep them warm and fed? You expect these people to just hide out in the suburbs and cities while government facilities still have lights flickering and radiators humming?If the only place in your city with electricity was restricted because of limited resources, and you and your family have been starving since all the food in the fridge spoiled in the first few days and all the dry food in the city has already been raided, do you think your going to form an orderly queue and wait your turn?And you thought Boxing Day was wild….And let’s say you were smart, or just lucky, and happen to have a source of food/water and reliable, off the grid energy (ie solar), you think your fellow, less prepared compatriots are just gonna roll over and die? When 10 masked, armed guys are banging on your door because you just so happen to have a bathtub full of drinking water or a working solar panel array, who are you gonna call (and with what)?! The police? Sorry, they’re more pre-occupied trying to quell the riots or direct evacuees or perhaps looking after their own families.Better bust one of these out.What happens when the already swamped hospitals are flooded with victims of the violence that spread on the streets? What about the thousands of people of the roads? Even with well lit highways and co-ordinated emergency response systems, thousands still die on our roads every year. How do you imagine how the situation will be on roads with no lighting, no snow plowing, no maintenance?Come on! You can buff that out!Bridge goes down from flooding or a quake? How are you meant to get spare parts or manufacture new ones when the factories are all down since there’s no power? How are you going to feed the populous of millions of starving people when the industrial farming methods we’ve spent the past 50 years perfecting go to sh*t?The chicken and cattle in those temperature regulated factories, what do you think happens to them when the temperature outside hits zero or when the waste pumps in the factory can’t divert the rivers of waste they produce?Yup, they’re all dead and now so are you… cuz you starvedHell, screw the chickens, what happens when the water pressure in the pipes and pumps dies? No latrines, no sanitation. Say goodbye to flushing toilets and clean tap water. No desalination plants either or pumps to bring up water from aquifers. Water treatment plants also go down, so get ready for open, flooded sewers overflowing with human waste and drinking out of polluted, disease-ridden river water.Drink up!Speaking of disease, what happens to those with chronic illness? Those who need to keep their medications refrigerated (ie insulin)? What happens when they can’t buy (or steal) anymore since the supplies are either exhausted or simply spoiled from lack of proper storage? It’s not like they can order some online! This coupled with the lack of distribution of existing medical stores and the rise of unsanitary conditions would lead to epidemics and the return of previously “eradicated” diseases in the US (ie cholera, malaria)What about people in the ICU or on ventilators? Well, their lights go out with the hospitals, when the emergency generators finally run out. People who need radiotherapy, MRI’s, CAT scans, invasive surgeries, transplants? Nope, all dead. People who need dialysis machines? Sorry, buddy no can do. If it needs electricity then you just can’t use it.Your wife who needs a C-Section to deliver the baby? Well I hope the baby doesn’t need an incubator because otherwise…And it’s not like the hospital and medical services will have the time, space or resources to deal with everyone. They’ll try their best but ultimately the demand will just be too much.Hang in their fellasWhat about places like California? Even with the massive monetary, industrial and technological resources the state has they still find themselves in the midst of a water crisis. Now try and imagine that with no electricity and you’ll get a place closer to Mad Max than Orange County.Real of footage of Californians when someone takes a water bottle outIt’s not like Californians can take the highways out (clogged with broken down, gas-less cars), a plane (no fuel and civilian air traffic probably grounded any way) and the train lines? Too busy moving aid and materiel in and out of the state, in a desperate attempt to keep those within sustained with aid, and when the trains fuel runs out, all you’ve got left is a 1000 ton paper weight.The subways? Flooded, no pumps to keep’ em dryAnd we haven’t even gotten to the fire pumps, the ones that keep the hydrants pressurised. Sure they, like hospitals and banks and other public infrastructure, have emergency fallback systems but those are only short term stop-gap measures, designed to fill the role of the main pumps till they’re repaired.They aren’t designed to hold out for the long term, (especially due to the fact during a disaster the load placed on these services increases drastically.) You wanna know what happens when every fire hydrant in the country goes down?Yeah that, x 10,000If that wasn’t bad enough, we couldn’t effectively respond to the massive wildfires that are becoming more and more common place. Uncontrolled fires would cause thousands of death and billions in damages nationwide, razing entire districts and forests to the ground.Smoky needs your help…. TO GET THE F*CK OUTWhat happens when those fires hit chemical warehouses, or fuel repositories? What happens when places dealing with volatile, toxic, temperature sensitive industrial chemicals suddenly lose power and can’t safely contain their materials?It’s like a regular fire, but with extra death®And let’s not forget, a cyber attack on nuclear power stations could disable their safety protocols and lead to, well…*Roblox death noise*Let’s say you decide to (finally) get the hell out of Dodge (literally) and leave the US. How are you gonna do it? Air traffic will no doubt be grounded and suspended until power and order can be restored to the cities. Although they will probably remain open initially, land borders with Canada and Mexico will eventually close as the human tide of refugees from the US overwhelms the countries which, despite their welcoming populations, resilient economies and industrial bases, can’t handle an exodus of this scale.Sea routes will probably remain open, since ports and other deep water shipping facilities will be among the first to have power restored but given that everybody and their mother wants to leave, those seats are gonna be expensive. Oh yeah, and good luck getting a visa or right to reside in another country without access to a phone, internet, online bank or even a functioning consulate/embassy. Besides, the Federal government will no doubt discourage mass exoduses (at least as much as they can) because they don’t want half the country up and leaving when there’s work to be done.Wanna get smuggled? Well that’s gonna be double expensive and risky and of course very illegal. And what are you going to pay your esteemed chauffeur with anyway? Unless you keep you money in a mattress, you’ll need to withdraw the money from a bank which will either be a.) looted, b.) closed due to no power or c.) closed and frozen due to Federal order, so that people like you don’t all withdraw money thereby leaving the bank with no money thereby collapsing the bank thereby further collapsing the no doubt, at this point, free falling US economy.Frozen banks bring a whole new meaning to cold, hard cashEven if you did have the cash, it’s possible (albeit still unlikely but hey, we got for worst case scenarios here) that the dollar’s value will have degraded drastically, so you might not have enough to pay anyway. Not to mention the hundreds of billions lost through stock divestment, shareholder panic and lost trade, as factories, shipping, manufacturing are all paralysed by the power cuts.So you can’t drive, fly or sail out. Looks like your walking. Expect thousands of American’s crossing the northern border and, ironically, illegally immigrating to Mexico by crossing the Rio Grande.The cost of this disaster would be unprecedented, an event unlike any other in human history. The ensuing riots, fighting, civil unrest, crime, famine, drought, fires, flooding, war, blizzards, heat waves and epidemics due to the disappearance of medicines and sanitary conditions would claim millions.The financial toll would be billions if not trillions of dollars and the subsequent clean up would take decades, especially for the chemical, oil and nuclear spills likely to happen without the modern, electricity-driven apparatus we have built to contain them.A true national, monster blackout such as this (caused by massive cyberattacks, physical terrorism, high nuclear EMP’s or even a Coronal Mass Ejection) would send the United States, at least for the most part, back to the Stone Age.TL;DR: A normal week in Detroit*Hey guys, don’t hesitate to tell me if you enjoyed this, what you didn’t like and how to improve or if there’s anything else to add!If you guys like, I’ll make a second part (Global destruction this time guaranteed ), leave a comment to tell me what you think!All the best,-MK