which apocalyptic senario do you fear the worst?

[Trotts]

I grew up in a house that had zero electricity. We had propane appliances and a wood stove for heat. I shit in an outhouse until I was 7. It certainly wasn't the end of the world. That was only as far back as the 1960's.

Don't forget that up until the 80's if you didn't live in urban area's we didn't rely on electricity near as much as we do now.

Interesting thing about this scenario is there was that solar flare that blacked out Canada some time ago. I don't know what the probabilities are like, but one good solar flare could potentially knock out the whole power grid to the entire planet and zap all the satellites to boot.

A few years back in 2003 we had the power outage in the north east.

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Being a Canadian our first and foremost concern was that our beer would get warm.

After that though, most people just hung out together, had BBQ's drank and took it easy for a until the power came back on. Some areas lacked power for a week or so.

I took great pleasure in cooking on the BBQ for every meal of the day, and drinking beer because we all know that you can't allow beer to stay warm for too long of a period of time. Long term power outages, well sure there would be pressures but overall, we'd be able to dig in and get through it.

Hell, can always cook with wood over a campfire, boil water, hell you can even flush toilets without power for that matter (just need to dump the water in manually).

As for the worst disaster imaginable, I find it pretty hard to imagie anything worse than a full out Nucleur War. Just the long term effects and the future repurcussions of it, not sure that no matter what measures we took, if we'd have much of a chance.

Pandemics, we've been there done that many times in human history.

Huge Meteors hitting the earth.. huge volcanic eruptions etc, global warming, or any other variety of scenarios that create dramatic changes in the environment, I'm pretty sure we'd get through, or at least have a chance of getting through it.

We'll have to wait it out and see =) what happens and who's dreams come true ;>