CRUNNELLA
@crunnella
A small reflection after experiencing a country wide blackout for over 10 hours: - I am not prepared whatsoever for any disaster scenario. Losing power for 10 hours isn’t even exactly disastrous and I wasn’t fully prepared. - We often take electricity and telecommunication services for granted. - I should start keeping an always fully charged power bank around. - Good job, Spain for getting it resolved in 10 hours. That’s actually impressive imo, but if it’s ever a cyberattack, we’re cooked. - Being in shape counts when you have no choice but to climb the stairs without working elevators. - Always keep some physical cash on hand. - Procrastinating on my chores over the weekend would have been much more annoying if I hadn’t done them. ie. Supermarket, laundry, cleaning. (Yay chronic procrastinator proud of herself!) - Call my mom more often.
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Kyle
@banta
What would you do to prepare for the social impact of outages like this (thinking, behavior of neighbors like runs on food and water and other fears that spread via social contagion in panic)
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CRUNNELLA
@crunnella
That’s a hard question! Humans are weird and it definitely heavily depends on the culture. I think Americans would quickly turn on each other and use their guns to get what they want or need in a real apocalyptic disaster situation. Spanish people are split - like half panic buy at supermarkets and the other half are just chilling drinking beer in the sunshine. Years of culture and conditioning can’t just be overwritten so it might not necessarily be so easy to prepare for what is ideal, but rather we’d see impacts of culture playing out in more serious prolonged situations.
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