Aside from covid of course…
My prediction is a texas-style grid failure but with a wider scale. Where I live, the electrical infrastructure is crumbling and there were a number of 1-2 day long outages this year which is new. Also a generally very poor area so little resources or motivation to fix or reinforce anything.
Real talk, find short term solutions to a power crisis. A small solar panel for electronics, a small cache of food and medicine, and a contingency for warmth. Now is the time to prepare. Also, make connections in your area with other leftists.
you can make a small oven out of sheet metal i think, use a window and some pipe as exhaust. You can then also use that oven to cook on. It’s not gonna be a good oven, but it will be better than nothing. Edit: put it on short legs(bricks), and those legs on a non flammable surface(metal sheet, or tiled floor), also have some metal on the wall closest to the oven, just isolate all flammable surface in the environement, and for the love of god look up an actual fire safety manual.
