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Life After Electricity
Life After Electricity
Life After Electricity
AFTER
ELECTRICITY
1.
First
hours
2.
First
days
3.
First
weeks
4.
First
months
5.
First
years
Part
1
First
HOURS
of
Life
after
Electricity
Spring.
The
light
was
extinguished
everywhere.
Reserve
power
has
been
immediately
turned
on
in
all
regime,
government,
and
dangerous
objects
of
all
countries
of
the
world.
The
information
about
simultaneous
power
outage
on
different
continents
in
different
countries
is
transmitted
on
reserve
connections.
Military
objectives
are
immediately
getting
prepared
for
the
state
of
high
alertness;
all
systems
operate
on
a
backup
power
supply
counted
on
several
days.
Nuclear
reactor
shutdown
procedure
begins
on
Nuclear
power
stations,
chemical
plants
shutdown
procedure
begins
too;
in
the
Metro
the
evacuation
of
people
begins
to
the
surface,
airports
operate
on
a
backup
power
supply
only
for
flights
landing.
In
short,
all
the
regime
objects
act
in
accordance
with
the
emergency
situation
schedule
of
switching
off
the
central
power
supply.
The
smaller
and
more
intelligent
part
of
the
population
immediately
admits
that
this
is
not
a
temporary
accident,
but
a
complete
power
outage
FOREVERMORE
–
the
situation
that
has
been
lately
discussed
by
many
people
a
lot.
Most
people
are
still
waiting
for
the
light
to
be
turned
on
again.
The
phones
do
not
work,
the
TVs
are
off,
NO
Internet.
The
main
thing
is
that
there
is
no
water
in
the
taps
and
anywhere
in
the
city;
the
sewage
system
does
not
work.
In
the
twenty
millionth
metropolis
at
least
a
million
people
want
to
shit
every
hour
–
and
in
spite
of
everything,
they
do
that.
Everywhere!
Shit
freely
begins
to
drain
from
the
upper
floors
to
the
heads
of
those
living
below.
Four
hours
later,
all
20
million
people
want
to
drink
in
the
megalopolis;
there
is
still
traffic
in
megalopolis,
but
there
are
already
traffic
jams
-‐
traffic
lights
do
not
work;
there
is
no
police
–
they
are
already
busy
with
the
fate
of
their
families.
The
smartest
and
fastest
ones
are
first
to
leave
the
city
by
car,
using
only
petrol
left
in
the
petrol
tanks,
and
move
in
the
direction
to
their
dachas
and
country
houses.
Practically
all
medical
activity
is
alredy
stopped
in
the
first
few
hours
-‐
millions
of
children
in
the
world
are
rescued
from
abortions,
tens
of
thousands
are
not
dismembered
into
organs
for
sale
to
transplantologists,
commercial
cutting
of
people
for
unnecessary
operations
and
poisoning
with
chemotherapy
ceases
immediately.
After
five
to
ten
hours
without
water,
people
begin
to
smash
store
windows
and
take
away
the
drinking
water
and
food.
By
the
end
of
the
first
day,
all
the
stores
of
megacities
are
scattered
over
millions
of
families.
Most
of
the
townspeople
still
do
not
leave
the
cities
and
are
waiting
for
the
turning
on
the
desired
electricity,
without
which
they
do
not
even
imagine
how
to
live
on.
By
the
end
of
the
first
24
hours,
the
main
goal
of
marauders
and
robbers
is
no
longer
money
or
jewelry,
but
drinking
water.
The
water
from
the
rivers
flowing
through
the
cities
cannot
be
used
as
drinking
water
–
it
became
pesticide
poison
long
ago.
There
are
no
water
supplies
to
the
cities
and
are
not
expected
to
be.
Without
electricity,
everything
has
been
stopped,
including
all
power
repair
services
that
would
have
to
repair
broken
power
lines
-‐
without
any
connection,
transport
and
management,
they
have
already
fled
to
their
families
and
solve
the
lack
of
water
and
food
for
their
wives
and
children.
This
is
how
the
first
day
passes
in
the
megacities
and
cities
of
the
world
after
a
simultaneous
disabling
of
all
main
transmission
lines
on
the
continents.
The
government
of
all
countries
in
the
world
is
shocked
to
observe
the
collapse
without
the
slightest
opportunity
to
stop
the
natural
logical
development
of
events,
because
nothing
works
in
the
technogenic
(manmade)
world
without
electricity.
Part
2
First
DAYS
of
Life
after
Electricity
After
spending
the
night
in
the
dark
apartments
without
water
and
johns
(toilets),
the
overwhelming
majority
starts
to
get
prepared
for
leaving
the
cities.
One
of
the
rooms
in
all
apartments
is
already
hopelessly
contaminated
-‐
stench
is
unbearable
everywhere,
sewage
has
been
already
poured
out
of
the
windows
for
24
hours.
People
begin
to
take
with
the
most
necessary
things
and
go
to
get
acquainted
with
the
neighbors
of
the
same
building
block
in
order
to
get
out
of
the
city
not
alone,
but
in
a
group.
Since
morning
streets
of
cities
of
the
world
are
getting
filled
with
streams
of
people,
squeezing
with
children
and
carriages
through
the
already
abandoned
cars.
The
distance
from
the
centre
to
the
exit
of
megacities
is
about
20
km
on
foot,
in
towns
it
is
about
2-‐3
kilometers.
This
is
not
a
problem
for
any
families,
even
for
those
in
patients
in
wheelchairs
–
it
takes
the
daylight
of
one
spring
day
to
reach
the
countryside.
Families
of
well
known
oligarchs
and
officials
are
wandering
together
with
the
lumpenproletariat
(working
class)
and
the
plankton
(office
workers).
All
the
banks
and
all
their
money
have
disappeared
without
electricity,
and
therefore
they
became
poor
because
all
the
money
was
electronic.
Drivers,
lackeys
and
guards
disappeared
together
with
electricity.
It
is
especially
hard
for
the
rich:
everyone
is
thirsty,
and
nothing
can
be
done
with
it
-‐
they
go
along
with
all
others.
The
sun
is
shinning,
thousands
and
thousands
of
people
(suddenly
united
by
one
big
problem)
feel
cheerful,
having
conversations
and
reciting
nursery
rhymes
-‐
they
are
moving
towards
a
new
life.
Outside
the
city
there
are
bonfires
everywhere,
resting
stops
for
having
a
rest,
discussions
about
what
to
do;
those
who
have
cut
off
electricity
are
criticized
and
abused;
forgotten
living
communication
is
everywhere,
acquaintances
and
first
falling
in
love
in
tents,
choosing
the
strongest
and
most
determined
people
as
seniors
for
each
group;
the
leaders
have
already
begun
to
show
themselves
during
the
first
day
of
exodus.
The
first
contacts
are
being
made
among
the
leaders
of
the
groups,
first
conflicts
appear
–
to
find
out
who
is
the
strongest.
But
in
every
conflict
no
one
crosses
the
line
-‐
people
have
a
huge
number
of
loaded
hunting
weapon.
On
military
objectives
of
the
countries
everything
is
on
a
staff
basis:
generators
are
working,
there
is
a
connection
with
the
headquarters
and
Government
regulatory
authorities.
But
the
psychological
tension
of
the
personnel
is
growing
because
there
is
no
information
about
where
the
families
of
servicemen
are
and
what
is
going
on
with
them.
There
are
both
electricity
and
water
on
warships.
On
submarines
too.
Missile
installations
are
predominantly
in
the
forests
and
in
the
mountains
-‐
everything
is
in
order
with
water,
food
and
johns
(toilets).
But
there
is
the
fuel
supply
left
in
generators
only
for
one
day
(24
hours).
The
submarines
have
a
long
term
supply,
and
missile
installations
have
fuel
supply
only
for
a
few
days.
Full
power
outage
has
drastically
decreased
the
motivation
for
missile
attacks
or
air
strikes.
There
is
no
electricity
in
any
country
of
the
world,
governments
are
not
busy
with
international
disputes
any
longer.
In
all
countries,
there
are
chaos
and
total
intractability.
Attempts
to
repair
the
main
transmission
lines
are
hopeless
-‐
neither
repair
services
nor
the
provision
of
their
work
are
no
longer
to
be
found;
without
electricity,
any
equipment
is
out
of
use;
nothing
works,
no
one
will
be
found
for
a
very
long
time.
And
the
reserve
of
power
supply
is
running
low
already
in
every
place.
Everything
is
shining
and
spinning
only
in
the
places
where
the
generator
are
filled
in
with
more
diesel,
but
only
there;
there
are
no
power
transmission
lines
any
longer
and
electricity
cannot
be
transmitted
nowhere.
And
at
this
time
in
each
direction
of
the
main
power
transmission
lines,
unknown
raiders,
not
confining
themselves
to
the
insulators
broken
up
the
day
before,
are
heaping
up
several
supports
of
telegraph
poles
-‐
this
is
the
final
clean
shot
to
the
electrification
head
of
the
planet.
And
now
any
repairing
of
power
transmission
lines
without
electricity
and
transport
is
impossible
at
all.
This
is
how
this
day
is
passing.
Many
have
already
reached
their
dachas
and
country
houses,
lighted
the
stoves
and
are
making
tea.
Others
have
halted,
still
it
is
far
to
their
houses
and
dachas.
Those,
who
have
no
place
to
go,
join
the
happy
owners
of
houses
and
wells
and
promise
to
serve
them
and
protect
their
new
owners
for
food
and
water.
Men
have
shared
night
watch
among
themselves
with
hunting
rifles
loaded
with
canister
in
order
to
protect
from
looters
and
robbers.
But
those
are
very
few.
After
all,
the
commission
of
any
crime
from
that
day
became
deadly
dangerous.
There
are
no
more
police
and
courts
that
will
protect
or
help
the
offender
to
escape
from
the
punishment.
Now
canister
shot
in
the
chest
is
the
only
thing
that
awaits
a
robber
or
rapist
at
the
slightest
aggression.
Now
the
people’s
right
for
self-‐defense
is
complete
and
unlimited.
The
indisputable
credibility
goes
to
armed
military
units,
which
are
leaving
the
cities,
marching
in
a
disciplined
order.
Their
order
is
the
law
for
everyone.
They
are
surely
given
a
part
of
the
water
and
food.
In
return,
full
protection
and
inviolability.
Power
is
not
just
power,
but
it
becomes
the
absolute
power;
and
already
without
any
ugly
substitutes
invented
by
parliaments
of
absurd
legislation.
The
only
thing
that
the
government
cannot
do
is
to
quickly
repair
electricity
without
electricity.
The
repair
infrastructure
is
completely
hopeless.
And
it
is
practically
irrecoverable.
In
the
evening
of
the
third
day
without
electricity,
there
are
not
even
any
robbers
and
looters
in
megacities.
Because
looters
are
thirsty
too,
and
in
depleted
technogenic
(manmade)
cities
there
is
no
drinking
water
and
cannot
be.
Part
3
First
WEEKS
of
Life
after
Electricity
There
is
a
widespread
division
of
the
land
by
millions
of
newly-‐made
peasants
with
the
land
stones
marking
in
order
to
show
the
borders
of
land
possession.
There
are
no
cadastre,
computers
and
other
shit
anymore.
The
land
is
taken
by
everyone
who
can
work
it
right
now,
during
this
season.
Everyone
understands
that
surviving
the
coming
winter
depends
on
the
harvest
of
what
will
be
grown
during
the
coming
summer
and
autumn.
Cattle
of
all
kinds
is
getting
increased
in
unheard
value.
No
one
slaughters
it
–
it
is
only
for
breeding.
Horses
are
of
special
value
and
price.
There
are
almost
no
horses.
But
those,
which
can
be
found,
are
to
be
immediately
commandeered
by
Military
Armed
units.
There
is
a
benefit:
still
a
lot
of
diesel
and
gasoline
in
different
storage
facilities;
and,
using
tractors,
everyone
ploughs
in
this
last
tractor
season.
Around
the
cities
almost
everything
is
being
ploughed
up.
People
sow
indiscriminately
all
the
seeds
that
they
find.
Those
who
do
not
have
the
access
to
the
tractor
dig
with
a
spade
as
much
area
for
kitchen
garden
as
they
can.
Each
day
and
every
hour
is
dedicated
to
preparing
for
the
coming
winter
which
makes
every
former
citizen
feel
horrible
while
getting
used
to
the
new
unusual
working
life.
The
days
are
still
long,
communication
between
neighbors
is
being
established,
people
are
exchanging
tools
for
the
labor
of
the
former
planktons
(former
office
workers)
which
have
nothing
at
all.
The
extraordinarily
high
sex
offer
from
the
millions
of
whore-‐students
and
whore-‐secretaries;
but
there
is
practically
no
demand
for
them:
they
are
thin,
ragged,
and
unwashed;
and
they
have
to
get
involved
in
a
hard
black
unskilled
job.
The
military
is
trying
to
repair
the
power
transmission
lines,
but
this
is
completely
impossible:
all
the
components
are
scattered
over
the
already
abandoned
warehouses
where
there
is
no
special
connection;
there
are
no
factories
for
the
dumped
towers
parts
production
-‐they
have
shut
down
and
have
already
been
depopulated;
and
the
most
important
thing
is
that
the
nuclear
power
stations
have
been
shut
down
in
an
emergency
order
of
full
power
outage
in
the
world,
and
there
are
already
no
people
there
-‐
the
system
has
completely
collapsed.
Attempts
to
repair
are
not
considered
at
all.
Countless
disputes
and
conflicts
lead
to
a
widespread
spontaneous
election
of
local
judges,
and
the
sentences
without
the
possibility
of
appealing
them.
The
court
is
fast
and
fair
-‐
all
in
front
of
people.
A
bribe
is
deadly
dangerous
and
almost
impossible.
Society
turns
into
the
society
of
judges.
The
vertical
of
submission
is
built
through
the
closest
military
groups
and
further
to
the
governmental
bodies
in
the
center
of
the
capitals.
The
very
possibility
of
a
nuclear
conflict
between
the
countries
has
completely
disappeared.
Just
because
there
are
no
targets
for
missile
and
air
strikes:
there
are
no
megacities
and
industrial
objectives
in
any
country
of
the
world
-‐
simply
no
targets
for
missile
and
air
strikes
any
longer.
Governments
of
different
countries
are
still
using
special
communication
to
solve
the
problems
of
submarines
with
nuclear
weapons
on
board.
The
commanders
of
submarines
receive
orders
to
unload
nuclear
warheads
on
deserted
coasts
and
how
to
hide
them.
And
thereafter
to
return
to
the
ports
of
registration
and
release
the
crews
ashore.
Military
missile
defense
units
are
still
carrying
combat
duty,
but
there
are
already
detachments
to
prevent
personnel
from
dispersing.
Backup
power
is
almost
depleted.
The
supply
of
diesel
fuel
for
generators
sometimes
occurs,
but
this
is
already
perceived
as
a
miracle.
There
is
no
connection,
with
the
exception
of
governmental
bodies
and
central
staffs.
Barrier
troops
also
show
unreliability,
and
the
cases
of
leaving
the
alert
and
the
absence
of
new
shifts
are
getting
increased
more
and
more.
Almost
all
the
colonies
have
already
been
left
by
the
guards,
and
the
prisoners
are
free
to
move
in
different
directions.
Gangs
appear:
those
attack
settlers.
The
only
goal
is
food.
Bandits
are
destroyed
by
both
military
units
and
any
armed
Heads
of
families
on
place
without
trial
and
invesigation.
Most
of
those
who
have
unexpectedly
found
freedom
find
their
places
as
farm
laborers
in
the
owners’
houses,
land
plots
and
peasant
farms;
many
prefer
free
gathering
and
harvesting
of
mushrooms
and
berries,
herbs
and
roots.
There
are
practically
no
injuries
caused
by
car
accidents,
at
factories,
in
megacities.
And
those
that
happen
are
treated
with
improvised
means
–
using
splints
(like
wooden
pieces)
for
support
of
the
broken
limbs,
treating
the
wounds
with
clay
and
fleaworts.
Doctors
from
the
medicine
of
paracelsus
inevitably
become
the
doctors
of
Galen’s
medicine
and
begin
to
use
herbs,
roots,
tinctures,
fresh
milk,
etc.
Anesthesia
replaces
a
glass
of
moonshine
(home
made
alcohol)
and
a
hard-‐fixed
body
for
emergency
amputations
and
operations
-‐
at
the
level
of
surgery
before
the
First
World
War
inclusively.
Gradually
the
general
atmosphere
becomes
calmer,
people
do
not
have
time
for
worrying
-‐
everyone
is
busy
with
work
from
morning
till
night.
There
is
a
visible
awaking
of
millions
of
former
TV
viewers
and
the
Internet
addicted.
All
gradually
come
to
their
senses
and
begin
to
understand
what
happened
to
humanity
for
the
last
century.
This
is
still
a
barely
noticeable
recovery
of
the
brain
and
consciousness,
but
these
signs
have
already
appeared.
The
best
of
all
is
for
the
former
urban
kids:
they
do
not
suspect
about
the
problems
of
parents,
playing
in
the
fields,
catching
butterflies
and
are
completely
safe
because
now
their
children's
bodies
are
not
needed
by
anyone
-‐
without
electricity
there
is
no
transplantology.
Part
4
First
MONTHS
of
Life
after
Electricity
It
is
already
the
second
month.
Everywhere
gentle
seedlings
of
green
colour
appear
in
the
recently
sown
fields.
There
is
a
little
amount
of
cattle,
and
it
is
guarded
by
whole
groups
of
fully
armed
men.
Now
the
cattle
is
of
the
greatest
value
–
nothing
is
worth
more.
There
is
no
money
use,
electronic
money
disappeared
on
the
first
day
of
full
power
outage
-‐
nobody
needs
cut
paper.
Judges,
security
officials
and
central
authorities
promise
the
prompt
entry
of
gold
and
silver
money,
but
so
far
the
craftsmen
have
just
begun
to
establish
a
manual
coinage
of
coins,
and
this
is
not
an
easy
task.
Commodity
exchange
is
everywhere.
Products,
flint,
simple
agricultural
tools,
building
materials
and
equipment,
cartridges,
warm
clothes,
shoes
of
all
kinds,
diesel
and
gasoline,
chacha
and
moonshine
(home
made
alcohol)
are
in
great
demand.
Families
with
strong
and
courageous
men
feel
the
best.
It
is
the
worst
of
all
for
those
who
are
without
men
or
with
weak
and
cowardly
men.
All
the
pederasts
were
killed
in
the
first
month,
immediately
after
the
disappearing
of
police
which
defended
pederasts
before.
A
rigid
power
vertical
is
getting
formed,
the
chaos
is
over.
The
order
is
very
rigid.
No
zones.
There
are
few
penalties:
either
public
flogging
or
the
death
penalty
by
hanging
–
bullets
are
expensive.
Thieves
are
punished
by
cutting
hands
or
shot
dead
by
the
owners
on
the
spot.
There
are
still
some
stocks
of
fuel
left.
Only
security
forces
go
by
cars
and
ride.
All
others
move
around
on
foot.
The
relations
between
parents
and
children,
brothers
and
sisters
(dispersed
by
thousands
of
kilometers)
are
broken
off.
It
becomes
obvious
that
everyone
will
not
meet
many
forever.
The
problem
of
diaspora
exists
and
awaits
its
solution.
Different
nationalities
with
a
population
of
hundreds
of
thousands
and
millions
of
people
arrange
their
compact
independent
government
and
control
already
huge
territories.
They
have
many
children
and
hard
working
women.
Almost
all
their
men
are
combat-‐ready
and
armed.
Already
in
the
second
and
third
generation
they
consider
different
lands
as
their
homeland.
The
option
of
the
coming
of
the
masses
of
Asians
and
Africans
back
to
their
ancestral
lands
is
not
even
considered,
it
is
impossible.
The
central
authority
of
different
countries
with
the
remaining
disciplined
military
forces
delays
the
solution
of
the
problem
of
the
diaspora's
power
borders,
and
thereby
increasingly
aggravates
it.
Autumn
is
coming.
Almost
all
have
already
decided
on
housing
and
work,
with
who
and
how
to
spend
the
winter.
The
crops
are
not
that
very
large,
but
the
harvesting
is
done
by
hands,
and
every
spikelet
and
every
fruit
are
harvested.
The
harvest
is
poured
into
numerous
hangars
and
warehouses
that
are
no
longer
suitable
for
anything
else.
Over
the
summer,
almost
all
mushrooms
and
berries
are
swept
and
harvested.
This
is
the
first
year
when
bees
have
given
a
wonderful
harvest
of
honey
since
many
decades,
and
the
bees
do
not
die
any
longer.
Fear
of
spending
the
first
winter
has
resulted
in
the
great
amount
of
products
prepared
for
the
winter.
After
harvesting,
the
mood
of
millions
of
people
has
become
close
to
the
jubilant
one
-‐
the
peoples
of
the
world
have
seen
that
nothing
terrible
had
happened:
it
is
possible
to
live
without
electricity;
and
the
number
of
problems
has
obviously
decreased
and
the
health
is
getting
better,
and
not
otherwise.
It
is
noticeable
that
almost
all
women
of
childbearing
age
are
pregnant
-‐
what
is
not
surprising,
because
there
are
almost
no
candles,
people
go
to
bed
right
after
sunset;
and
millions
of
abortions
without
electricity
is
impossible,
and
the
children
are
now
in
great
demand
both
for
parents
and
for
the
state.
In
February
and
March,
at
the
end
of
a
difficult
and
unusual
winter,
all
countries
of
the
world
are
filled
with
crib
talk
of
newborn
babies.
Weak
babies
die
at
once,
but
the
birth
rate
is
off
the
scale;
and
on
the
national
scale
the
percentage
of
infant
mortality
is
almost
invisible.
Over
the
past
months,
the
great
majority
of
people
have
turned
to
God
in
one
way
or
another,
but
in
the
way
they
have
never
turned
to
God
before.
The
society
was
confidently
and
quickly
divided
into
three
classes:
the
military,
the
Clergy
and
peasants.
Moreover,
the
military
and
the
Clergy
are
under
one
and
a
half
percent
(1.5
%)
of
the
total
population.
And
therefore,
it
is
not
difficult
for
new
peasants
to
feed
keep
them.
The
first
attempts
to
gather
the
tribute
were
made
–
but
tribute
gathering
without
coins
is
uncomfortable.
Everyone
is
getting
prepared
for
the
second
crop.
The
necessary
equipment
is
prepared.
The
military
allocates
the
left
precious
fuel
for
ploughing,
and
only
for
ploughing.
But
it
is
already
too
little.
They
also
give
all
the
horses
for
ploughing.
Not
only
women
are
pregnant,
but
all
the
mares
are
in
foal.
Mares
are
under
supervisions
and
especially
protected
in
order
not
to
damage
the
foals.
Sorcerers-‐scientists
continue
to
cause
confusion
in
the
heads
of
the
central
leadership,
but
more
and
more
of
national
security
start
to
understand
WHO
IS
GUILTY
and
WHAT
TO
DO.
It
is
impossible
to
deceive
all
on
a
long
term
basis:
the
fraud
is
short
term,
the
truth
is
endless.
The
fate
of
pederasts
awaits
for
unrepentant
sorcerers.
To
be
continued...
Glory be to Jesus Christ!
German Sterling (prose writer)