5 Critical Infrastructure Systems Nearing Collapse

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[Jacob-oquv]

This whole year has been a learning experience for damn near everyone

[_Diggler]

I’m setting up an umbrella and lawn chair in my yard today, popping a frosty beverage, and sitting back and experience a moment of passing calm.

[glenarthur]

Stay safe my American friends. We also have an aging infrastructure here in Canada.

[_Diggler]

We need a trillion dollars to fix infrastructure. That’ll put some folks back to work. And the upkeep should be mandatory. I’d classify it as a national defense priority.

[lexboegen]

My plan for waste disposal is to carefully bag it all up, and put it on the steps of the county commissioner's offices.

[teaganwindago]

I have lived in east Texas for 33 years and I have paid a lot of money for water that I won't even cook with. I buy pallets of bottled water all the time. It's loaded into my truck with a forklift. Then takes hours to unload once Im home. We do what we need to do! I do have filtration systems in place in the case I need to filter river water. Hopefully I never have to use them. But I have them just in case. Also it's a very good idea to save any bottles you have and fill them with the funkey water to boil or filter later. Prepping is not a hobby it's a

[finitewehosh]

I recommend looking into the bronze age collapse if your interested in historical precedent to system collapse or systemic failure. Regardless of your stance on what is or isn't worth prepping for, this will give you good insight into what a society collapsing in on itself would look like and what you can expect.

[valerieannrumpf]

Failure of one system can cascade and cause other infrastructure failures. Keep on prepping people.

[matschmoon]

Fire is my worst enemy. I live in a small off-grid cabin in the wood. Water? Check! Power? Double check! (pv and generator) Heat? Check! (plenty of wood here) .. fire extinguisher? Yepp, 4 of them.. 🤣🤣🤣 .. one wild fire and my dream is done. I cant cut down all the trees. Man, I live in a forrest and want to keep it that way 😉😃 Stay safe out there & greetz from Germany 🖖😎

[happygardener]

I contend that the politicians at all levels have failed to ensure that designated funds for Repair and Replacement, or legislation to require such funds from utility suppliers, were established and fiscally maintained. Instead they line their pockets and the pockets of their friends while giving the public sob stories and ask for more tax money.

[peggySO-OG]

We lost our home last year when a levee on the Missouri breached in Iowa. I had had 12ft of muddy water in my home for almost 30 days. The water also contained Schumer from 2 waste water treatment plants.

[Garythedog]

Thank you. The electrical grid is my biggest concern. Without power there’s no water ATM machines or gas available at gas stations. A disastrous situation to be sure.

[angelicsiren]

Great vid! Thanks for delving into something that not usually addressed and needs to be brought to light.

[nightfury]

Excellent work as usual Chris. It’s because of info like this that I augmented my electric well pump to include an auxiliary manual “hand crank” well pump. It wasn’t cheap but I saved my pennies for it 😉. Electricity is the Achilles heal of our modern civilization & ya can’t live very long without fresh water.

[silverbladeTE]

Rome's Elite and Church didn't pay their taxes....Rome fell because of that. Infrastructure isn't a "Money maker" for greedy gits...and so we're screwed in UK and USA for same reasons, like it or not :(
Eisenhower forced the nuclear industry to use extremely rigorous safety standards based on Navy regulations...but, that costs money, so the energy corporations want those regulations relaxed.
Etc etc

[steimystein]

Where I live in Oregon, schools are being retrofitted and more buildings added, our library and city hall are having seismic upgrades done, a new police facility is being built, and road construction and upgrades are being done. I haven't seen this much work on our city in years.

[SafetyProMalta]

Trillions spent fighting Middle East wars and zero on a New Deal for USA. Time for a new Civilian Conservation Corps like the '30s.

[snipervictim]

Right now as I type this I have no idea if it will get to you because the internet is SO slow now they just happened to start having problems when the kids began school ! When you build a house on greed you can not be surprised when it collapses!

[danielcortez]

Yo CP, as you know the Dam to my North is 60 plus years old, and the city has finally allocated money to fix, construction begins in the next 2 years. I’m thankful they are going to fix it, I just wish it was sooner rather than later,
Thank you for your hard work

[livingasagoat]

Most roads in NW Ohio is like driving on swiss cheese. And there's almost constant road construction on the main roads. They'll do an entire section and by the next year the roads already cracking and has several pot holes in it. Not sure if it's just the ground. Or cheap material and cutting corners to make the work go faster. Either way, these roads suck and have always sucked.