[ WP ] As a survival expert and trained combat veteran , I am sure you can handle yourself when the government collapses , right ? Well . It happened .

This does n't fit the prompt exactly, but: 
 
 *Saturday, May 30, 2015* 
 
 I know now that we should have got out of here several weeks ago. The city of London used to have eight million people living in it, but now I'd say there ca n't be more than a hundred thousand. We have n't heard anything from the government since that Thursday night a month ago - they were talking about the referendum on EU membership that would have happened in 2017; the election campaign had been going on for a month by then, but of course at ten to four that solar storm or whatever it was hit Earth and all of the televisions, all of the computers and the vast majority of radios - those that ran on grid power - turned off. 
 
 No-one has had electric power for almost thirty days now: most aeroplanes fell out of the sky on the first night of the blackout, everyone on life support died and there were car crashes by the thousand. The last televised weather forecast I watched, at 10:30 that Thursday night, said it would be cloudy throughout the country - of course it would be cloudy throughout the country due to Sod's law - so no Briton would see the aurora borealis. We did n't get clear skies until... I think it was Sunday night, the day before a bank holiday Monday ( but of course nowadays either every day's a bank holiday or no day is ), when we all looked up in wonder. You did n't very often get to see such a view of the stars, thousands of them with the full moon high in the sky, but now we see that almost every night and the novelty's worn off. 
 
 But, as the first full week without electric power began, people started to loot supermarkets and riot in the streets. I do n't know where the police were - maybe they were protecting their families, maybe they were dealing with disturbances in other parts of London - but it seems our country began to spiral out of control on the fifth or sixth of May. 
 
 Now it's nearly the end of the month - on Monday we will enter the second month of the blackout, and I do n't see the world getting back to normal for ten or fifteen years.
