Scenario
The Day After Tomorrow
The power went out in February and stayed out.
No monster, no infection. A cascading grid failure in the coldest month, and the repair crews cannot reach the substations because the roads are the same problem. Nothing is hunting anyone. It is simply very cold, indoors as well as out, and it does not stop being cold.
What kills you
Cold, boredom, and carbon monoxide — in that order.
Rules
- 01Heat the person, then the room, then never the house.
- 02Anything that burns indoors needs a detector beside it.
- 03Water first. Frozen pipes end the whole plan.
- 04Have something to do. Ten weeks is a long time.
The kit
5 itemsHeating one person is achievable. Heating a house is not.
Most people who die in a long outage die of what they burned to stay warm.
Frozen pipes turn a cold week into a flooded one.
The word doing the work in that name is 'indoor'. Check it twice.
Every honest account of a long winter is mostly about boredom.
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