I live in the Midwest (Indiana) in a medium sized town... today we had a major power outage that left most of the city without power. All of the downtown was closed (including major businesses), streetlights were out, radio stations off the air... chaos reigned.

While things are now (mostly) under control, the events of the day left me with several questions to ponder: What would happen if power in the city were out for any substantial time period? Why did it take an entire day to react to the outage, and why did life as we know it just stop? People were honestly just sitting around like the world was over, simply because they had no power...

I would like to think that, while technology has progressed, basic survival skills would still be present. Among the other distresses heading our way, I shudder to think about what my community will do if we happen to experience long-term or widespread power outage. I guess the only thing to do is learn how to survive on my own as well as how to educate others.