I can probably survive as long as water is available. I assume, heating (gas) will fail, but then the house temperature will only drop slowly and a sleeping bag with some blankets should keep us alive. Food? Tough, I don’t keep much food and most of what i have is refrigerated. But then things don’t spoil instantly. I would first eat what’s in the fridge, then from the freezer, then whatever is kept at room temperature.

I guess two weeks. The real problem is all the other people and no functioning police, fire brigade, ambulance. I don’t grow my own food or hunt, so this will be practical problem, but I’m more afraid of all the other people who are also desperate.

I’m literally dead in about a week. All of my heating, cooking, and refrigeration are electric, and I have no backup supply or the means to safely add a backup. So I’d have no food, very little water, and I’d freeze to death.

I have a fireplace, a spring, and laying hens. I’d be fine, just incredibly bored.

We live in a large straw bale house in the country. We have a generator (and a dozen large gas cans which we rotate by filling our van then refilling the gas cans) which runs all the lighting circuits, the fridge and freeer, our propane in-floor radiant heat, water well, and our propane tanlkess DHW. We also have a wood stove in the center of the house that we can use to heat the house very effectively and more than a winter’s worth of good, dry hardwood in an enclosed wood shed. We have ample supplies of food and other necessities.

Durign major weather events we leave our front door unlocked and our friends and neighbors know that they can come, bringing bedding and just find an open couch or floor space.

We’ll be fine for a good long while

My family probably wouldn’t make it past 3 weeks. We are dependent on rechargeable electronic insulin pumps. Pumps last 3-5 days. Can be recharged on a laptop, maybe 2-3 times. Can recharge in the car a few times. Our real problem is no food.