If the internet went down today, would you be able to survive?

@lookatdesktop It can definitely be hard to have friends outside of the internet. It get tricky.

Having friends outside the world wide web of things is still optional only mostly it is by phone. Almost the same thing. People don't visit as much any more. I have to offer dinner and a movie to get people over our house sometimes.

@dodo19 , Well, in the world outside the internet you have to feed the trolls literally.

I need a power backup ASAP. , They say most information is digitally stored in an archive but what if it all went black? There are medical records and millions of other records on digital memory in the cloud, and if there is no hard copy of any of it, puff, it all goes away in a second.

In my childrens school, especially the high school, they have them always working on electronics. When you try to show them another way to get info they freak out. The schools are not doing them any good by keeping them on electronics. When us parents try to keep things grounded, they get so upset.

@taramarie39 , But you know what is important and I know you are working hard to help let them understand the importance of doing things in more than just electronics but by the books, old school style. It is always good to have extra pads of paper and plenty of pencils and ball point pens handy.

@lookatdesktop True. There's that for some people. But here, where I'm from--which is a not so developed area like the US--we can always go back to the very basic of things. Before moving to the city, my grandfather has already been a farmer until he departed this world. We could always go back to that land he worked for years if we have to and learn to live a farmer's life. Else, I can be like my grandmothers (be in the wet market and hawk veggies or learn dressmaking). Sure there's more manual labor when technology suddenly vanishes but if there's one thing I know about humans is that when there's something that we truly want to do, no matter the obstacles, we would always find the inner strength to overcome those obstacles. Be it on working to survive to enjoying an hour reading books.

@SinfulRose Books will always be one of my favorite things.

I would be lucky to have time to read the books in my small collection even.

@lookatdesktop I completely agree. Which reminds me. I need to go to the store today. I have to pick up batteries.

@taramarie39 , Good luck getting a good bargain on those batteries.

Food storage should be a top priority as well as basic water and medicine supplies and extra clothing and emergency medical supplies and some basic tools, radio communications device like CB radio and flashlights and some hand tools and extra batteries and some kind of reading material. I think more people are thinking along these lines because we are living in a volatile world now and we should expect the unexpected. Better to be over prepared than regretting it at the last moment.

@lookatdesktop thanks

Glad to hear that.