I went back and started over, and still don't see it as being a lot of hope against anything really. I see power outs as a problem but there's really not much you can do but just hang in best you can. And just hope it comes back on. I think there was a book named "6 days to chaos" or something like that, about an enemy EMP or something, and that's likely the most possible scenario. This has been tossed around for decades and yet nobody has even begun to harden our electrical grids against it
That photo at the bottom of page one is not what you wish to drive around here. If the sheriff didn't get you for running a distillery, then someone else would for impersonating a moonshiner