http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/experts-warn-congress-emp-attack-us-power-grid-lead-catastrophic-civilian-casualties/ Such an event would leave us with 19th-century technology -- at best -- which is incapable of providing for the needs of 300+ million people, or even a quarter of that. And even if many people store seeds of various kinds, if they're from Monsanto and similar corporations, they will germinate, but the crops that come up won't produce viable seed. Contact your representatives and insist that they pass legislation to harden the national power grid so that it won't succumb to such events.