If you’ve kept up with the sad story of Venezuela, then you know that they’ve lost their electricity due to the chaos.
But what if that happened here in the United State? What if we lost electricity for an extended period of time?
Not only did this happen in Venezuela, but 3 other countries just experienced a massive blackout as well.
According to Fox News,
The largest red flag on this issue in years just waved in South America. Last weekend, tens of millions of people in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay found themselves in a complete blackout. In one moment, they had electricity. The next moment, they had none, and they were catapulted back to the 1800s.
Only much worse.
People in the 1800s were not dependent upon electricity for their jobs, money, communication, Internet, transportation, education, security, medical services, prescriptions, water, and very lives.
The saying is that the national power grid of the United States is held together with not much more than “baling wire and chewing gum.”
The reason that these countries lost their electricity though isn’t because of socialism, but because of natural disasters and weather.
Ars Technica reports,
Early Sunday morning, all of mainland Argentina lost power in an “unprecedented” blackout event that left most of the country’s 44 million citizens in the dark until the evening. The blackout also extended to Uruguay (which is connected to Argentina’s power grid) and limited parts of Chile. Although the exact cause of the blackout is still being investigated, Argentina experienced heavy rains over the weekend, and there is reason to believe that the inclement weather played a starring role in the largest blackout in recent history.
Extreme weather events are a leading cause of blackouts around the world, and the blackout in Argentina is a reminder that our electric grids aren’t ready to handle the increasing intensity of storms resulting from climate change. Although the United States isn’t likely to see a nationwide blackout like the one that hit Argentina, localized blackouts in the United States have increased in both frequency and duration in recent years. This is due in no small part to massive forest fires, snow storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes that cause localized blackouts often affecting tens of thousands of people.
Can you just imagine the absolute chaos and the riots that would ensue if our country lost electricity nationwide?
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