living without electricity

[Mortblanc]

Lack of refrigeration is why you do not depend on refrigerated foods in your preps.

It is also why you have 100 pounds of salt per-person in your stores for brining and salting meats to preserve them. Fruits and veggies you dry if they will not keep in a cellar.

Foods that require cold to form or if you want to cook more than you can consume at a sitting, you will need to wait for cool weather to aid you.

Or keep the pot hot on the stove eternally just to kill bacteria. The eternal stew over the fire was a feature of pre-refrigeration homes.

Motor oil will not work in your oil lamp. It will smoke excessively and stink.

Diesel will work if you can find the dregs in the bottom of someone's fuel tank.

Without electricity what are you going to do for transportation, since fuel requires electricity for pumping from the underground tanks?

Not only are you unrefrigerated and unlit, you are also unable to travel more than a few miles in a day. Imagine being stuck right there, at home, with no job to go to, and all your neighbors in the same situation. No one going any were, ever. And your spouses voice ringing in your ears hour, after hour, after hour...

Now you know why they have that pub just down the road.

Then there is the entertainment factor that takes up so much of our day? Recorded music, games, computer searches and chat, TV, radio,,,,all gone. Without the gadgets and devices how will one while away the 10-14 hours between dusk and dawn with no sufficient light. You can't work, can't sew, can't read...

Oh yes, I forgot about that pub.