I would somewhat cynically suggest that the government loves it when people start complaining about not being provided with essentials like electricity and water and food. Without meaning to offend you, and putting myself in the shoes of a situation that would deeply frustrate me, pragmatic questions immediately appear in my mind: How can one help oneself without continuing to be dependent on those who supposedly serve their country and their people?

What possibilities of decentralised and necessary technical devices for times of need can be procured? Where do ordinary people help each other? Who has the technical know-how to compensate for power cuts with wind or solar energy (or other alternatives)? What best practice examples and stories from the neighbourhood can be told? Who has made a virtue out of necessity? Are there possibilities to imitate this? And so on. If I imagine that the power went out here for such long periods of time, I would probably want to get some people to pool their expertise and not waste my time begging or bitching about the government. When people do that, it seems to prevent them from helping each other.

I think that the failures in the utilities on the part of the authorities provide the very best opportunity and arguments to put decentralised efforts into action. Since the government can have no argument against this, if the supply does not take place for such long periods of time. Otherwise they always say that this or that is not possible because of this or that regular. These times of exemptions could be used for the peoples own advantages.

Therefore, is there anything you could mention that has impressed you in terms of what you have experienced positively?

P.S.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take away everything you have.
– Thomas Jefferson

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