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[Layzeebeaver]

1. Thank heavens For my 80yr old mother's 70yr old Kirby

She will be fine when the interweb collapses.

My grandfather sold them for awhile back in the 50’s.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. But when the electrical grid fails

You’ll be glad to have one of these. Enslaved baby mammoth. No home should be without one.

[Layzeebeaver]

3. Ha! Well said. Nt.

[Rorey]

4. We joke, but failure of infrastructure has crossed my mind

We're so dependent. It would be very difficult for many to cope.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. It's always been a concern of mine

Even as a ten-year-old, the northeast power outage of 1965 affected my worldview.

[Rorey]

6. Blizzard of '66

I grew up in North Dakota. In 1966 we had a horrible blizzard. Our power was out for four days and we were trapped. Our only communication with the outside world was our party-line phone, and we were on the same line as a family whose 12 year old daughter was lost overnight in the storm. It profoundly changed my life.

https://www.weather.gov/fgf/blizzardof66