Tonight at 9p National Geographic Channel asks what would happen if all the power went out in the continental United States for 10 long grueling days. During the 2 hour movie you will follow several people as they document what happens throughout the US during the
American Blackout.
At first things start off normally after the cyber attack, but as the days go on things get worse and worse. Stores are gouging people for necessities like water and food. Houses are burning down because there are too many of them and not enough firefighters. In fact there are so many people that are stuck in elevators that some of them will spend the whole time in there until the power is turned back on. The people that were neighborly at the beginning of the blackout, now believe in each man for himself. People will do anything to get what they need and that means kill for it.
As the time goes on camps are opened so people who have lost everything have a place to stay. It is also there where people who lost their loved ones will try to reconnect with them. Something that was not possible because the phones have been down.
When the power comes back things slowly return to normal, well as normal as they can after everything they went through.
The biggest take away from American Blackout is that we all need to prepare for it because a disaster can strike at any moment without us knowing. That and you will be sleeping with the lights on for a few nights.
