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In February 2021, Texas came within 4 minutes and 37 seconds of a statewide grid collapse. In April 2025, the power grid of Spain and Portugal collapsed in 27 seconds. Since then, government after government has told its people to be ready to survive 72 hours on their own. Here's what they're preparing for — and what really happens, hour by hour, when the power goes out and stays out.

Every claim in this film is sourced; the key sources are below. Maps and reconstructions are illustrative.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The warning
1:38 Exhibit A · 27 seconds: how Spain and Portugal went dark
3:47 Protocol 01 · Find a radio
4:20 Exhibit B · 4 minutes 37 seconds: Texas
5:59 Protocol 02 · Water first
6:37 Protocol 03 · Keep it closed
7:12 Exhibit C · The first one: Ukraine
9:12 Exhibit D · Already inside
10:33 Protocol 04 · Cash
10:58 Exhibit E · The machine nobody can replace
13:10 Protocol 05 · Never indoors
13:40 Exhibit F · The new hand: AI
16:02 Exhibit G · Why exactly 72 hours?
17:33 Protocol 06 · The kit
18:08 How long could you last?

SOURCES
• European Commission — Preparedness Union Strategy, IP/25/856 (26 Mar 2025): https://ec.europa.eu/commissio....n/presscorner/detail
• UK Government — Be Ready checklist (Oct 2026): https://beready.campaign.gov.u....k/wp-content/uploads
• Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (MCF) — In case of crisis or war: https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/31523.pdf
• Poland — Safety Handbook (Poradnik Bezpieczeństwa): https://www.gov.pl/attachment/....9aa63303-0c11-4756-9
• ENTSO-E Expert Panel — Final Report on the Grid Incident in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025 (Mar 2026): https://eepublicdownloads.blob.....core.windows.net/pu
• KUT/NPR — Texas' grid was 4 minutes and 37 seconds from collapse (2021): https://www.kut.org/energy-env....ironment/2021-02-24/
• FERC/NERC — February 2021 Cold Weather Outages report (Nov 2021)
• Texas DSHS — February 2021 Winter Storm-Related Deaths: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sit....es/default/files/new
• E-ISAC/SANS — Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid (2016)
• CISA/NSA/FBI — Advisory AA24-038A, Volt Typhoon (Feb 2024): https://www.cisa.gov/news-even....ts/cybersecurity-adv
• NSA/CISA/FBI/DOE/EPA — Advisory AA26-231A (Aug 2026): https://www.cisa.gov/news-even....ts/cybersecurity-adv
• Anthropic — Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign (Nov 2025): https://assets.anthropic.com/m..../ec212e6566a0d47/ori
• US Department of Energy — Large Power Transformer Resilience, Report to Congress (Jul 2024): https://www.energy.gov/sites/d....efault/files/2024-10
• CERT Polska — Incident report, energy sector (Jan 2026)
• UK NCSC — Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report..../impact-ai-cyber-thr
• DARPA — AI Cyber Challenge results (Aug 2025): https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/aixcc-results
• CDC — Discarding food after a power outage: https://www.cdc.gov/natural-di....sasters/psa-toolkit/
• UK Parliament — Written statement HLWS418, Strengthening community resilience (22 Oct 2026): https://questions-statements.p....arliament.uk/written
• Dutch government (Denk vooruit) — Emergency kit: https://english.denkvooruit.nl..../prepare-yourself/pu
• NPR — Wray warns Chinese hackers aim to 'wreak havoc' (31 Jan 2024): https://www.nhpr.org/2024-01-3....1/wray-warns-chinese
• Fortune — Pentagon FORTRESS bases, 90 days (reported, not officially confirmed) (26 Oct 2026): https://fortune.com/2026/10/26..../pentagon-fortress-b
Full source list: 100 references, available on request.

Music: YouTube Audio Library — Density & Time; The Grey Room / Density & Time; The Soundlings.
Map data: Natural Earth. Earth at night: NASA Black Marble.

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