What to expect when the power grid goes down.

[Jonas]

Wikipedia says:

New Orleans, population density is 1965 per square mile.
Manchester city has a pop density of over 5000 per square mile. Even the county of Greater Manchester has a density over that or New Orleans (but not by much)...

Which would indicate to me that Manchester would be a good place to avoid. Folks living there should have their "bug-out plans" on a hair trigger.

New Orleans reverted back to a "stone age" society within 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina and the breeching of the levees. Even a majority of the local law enforcement officers went rogue. While people were starving and dying of dehydration at the "Convention Center", literally thousands of school buses, which could have evacuated a good number of people, were left to rust in their flooded parking lots.

Meanwhile, the mayor did nothing, and the governor dilly-dallied on declaring a state of emergency, which was needed for the federal government to send help, despite pleas from Washington to do so!

I pretty much expect the people in every large city hit by a disaster to react the same way.