Those with foresight had already begun to use their own connections to buy generators and solar panels.
After the power shortage, the white-collar workers who used to work from home lost their jobs. Many small companies also closed down at this time. More than half of the people in the city lost their source of income.
Those who had savings were better off, while those who were living paycheck to paycheck struggled to survive. After all, they had no income, but the prices of goods had begun to rise sharply.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and it had not rained for a long time. The discussion about the coming of the apocalypse on the internet was taking a more serious turn. People with a little bit of savings began to stock up on supplies like crazy, causing the price of goods to rise by leaps and bounds.
