New York 2005 Blackout

[Skvez]

Some scum would start to riot as soon as the lights went out. They'd be the ones pinching the TVs even though the power won't ever come on again.

A few people will try and flee to somewhere else, do reckless speeds on the unlit and un-trafflicklit (un-traffick-lighted?) roads having collisions that block the roads and make all travel much harder.

Some bureaucrat will seize the opportunity to declare himself (they're usually men) as tin-pot dictator with "emergency powers" to do pretty much whatever they want.

Most people will be paralysed by their normalcy bias, they are the ones who continue to use a toilet that won't flush even when it's starting to overflow onto the bathroom floor. They have no ability to accept that the old rules don't apply anymore. And they blame someone else for their bathroom floor being covered in their own filth. They'll be peeking out from behind the curtains as their street burns and waiting for someone to come and make everything right again.