Brilliant, just brilliant!
Like someone else mentioned, there was the end of the world for Y2K and people went nuts over it. Some, I believe, ended up eating oatmeal for breakfast for 17 years, and they are still charging their battery driven small appliances by riding a bicycle converted to generator.
Actually... that's not such a bad idea... you'd still have electricity in case of an EMP.
I wouldn't actually mind too much... having to eat canned peaches for a long time.
Always remember ducktape. Because it's already what holds the world together, and you can fix pretty much anything (other than stupidity) with it!
I wonder if an EMP could still destroy the smaller setups? Hmm...
Peaches are incredible, plus there's a source of sweet water as well. Some call it juice but we all know it's just flavored sugar water.
I can't recall ever seeing ducktape on a duck. That's my next project.