Since we have been on this topic for a couple of days now, I thought I'd start a thread to specify scenarios, bug out bags, EMP attacks, etc.

Say we all went to work on a Tuesday morning (using a mid week scenario for a reason) and sometime around 11am the grid went down. No power, cell phones, most vehicles made after 1982 and many before, and since we are at work, we are away from our loved ones. What would your first instinct be? And what are some ideas you guys have as far as survival in case of a national emergency such as this?

I personally think that if a scenario such as described were to happen that there would be mass panic and total chaos. If it were an isolated event like a hurricane, there is hope that help is coming since the rest of the country knows the situation. So in that case there may not be such panic. It reminds me of a story I recently read about a central Florida town after a string of hurricanes took them out for close to a month. Towards the end things got scary for the residence.

This is all hypothetical and I'm not trying to bring on "doom and gloom". After the last thread concerning this stuff, it made me realize that we may not be prepared. Or maybe not as prepared as we think. Let's try to bounce ideas off of each other so that we might actually be able to help one another in case some catastrophe were to happen. And if I'm the only one that gets into planning out survival tactics, we'll just let this thing fade away. I probably watch too many survival shows.... lol.