When the blackout had came, it wasn’t a flicker. It wasn’t a storm blowing transformers. It wasn’t a rolling outage. It was totally and completely black out. The entire grid it went dark in one breath. Lights, towers, pumps, and almost everything was completely gone.

The first week looked like a long weekend. “Power will be back in a few hours.” People they laughed. They grilled meat from their freezers. They stayed up late with candles, telling themselves it was an adventures.

By the second week, the laughter it was all gone. Cell phones were useless bricks. Supermarkets they were closed. Gas stations they couldn't operate no more. Taps they were dry. Toilets they had backed up.

By the third week, there was panic. Highways we're full of stranded cars. Government offices locked. Banks bolted.

After ninety days, that’s how long the dark lasted. The cities they turned into cages. The people they waited for rescue that never came. Some starved in high-rise apartments.

But only a few they managed to survived, because they were ready. These were not preppers with bunkers full of canned beans. They were the quiet folks who were ignored. Those with chicken coop in the backyard. The ones tinkering with solar panels on their roof. The neighbor who insisted on filtering, distilling and purifying his own water.

They survived because they weren’t waiting on “the system.” Their food it didn’t came from trucks. Their light it didn’t came from power plants. Their internet it didn’t came from towers.

A handful of communities cling together via decentralized mesh networks powered by rooftop solar. They eat homemade food grown and raised in their backyard. They sent messages over meshnet and satellite when the world was silent. They weren’t institutions/corporations owned

When the lights finally blinked back on after 90 days, the majority of people in nations were gone. It was as if history itself it decided to hit the reset button.

And yet, only a handful of the entire human race survived because they had one thing in common:

They didn’t waited for governments to prepare them for survival. They owned their tools. They owned their food. They owned their power. They owned their networks.

The unexpected cometh. Are you sovereign enough?