"the sound of silence"

[bigpaul]

i am convinced that once the power goes off, no traffic noise, no aircraft noise, no canned music, etc.etc. a lot of people are going to freak out. you see, people make so much noise these days, kids screaming and shouting, adults hammering, sawing, mowing the lawn, i think most people would be FRIGHTENED of the deathly hush that would occur. one of the reasons i take the dog up past the fields is too get away from people and noise, i can hear the dogs barking in the kennels-one and a half miles away, i can hear the cattle arriving at the abbattoir -a mile away. after TSHTF it will be so quiet you'll be surprised how far a noise will travel. i think post event there will be a lot of suicides and people not caring if they live or die, because they cannot cope with "the sound of silence".