The Ripple Effect

Our world has become very technologically oriented. Nearly every person in the developed world depends on electrical power in some form and the multitude of devices it powers. People living in every city, in every country, on every continent, depend on computers to assist in their daily lives. The delicate circuitry of computers is an integral part of many everyday things we rely on: Vehicles, ships, planes, factories, phones, kitchen appliances, watches, radios, and on and...
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Our world has become very technologically oriented. Nearly every person in the developed world depends on electrical power in some form and the multitude of devices it powers. People living in every city, in every country, on every continent, depend on computers to assist in their daily lives.
The delicate circuitry of computers is an integral part of many everyday things we rely on: Vehicles, ships, planes, factories, phones, kitchen appliances, watches, radios, and on and on. The satellites that support the flow of digital information these devices need in order to function, are also totally dependent on electric power. If the electricity does not flow... our world will stop.
What would happen if suddenly all that technology was gone in an instant? What would our world be like then? Could our civilization even remain civil? What would happen to us?
A group of people from a neighborhood located in a Los Angeles suburb are forced to answer that question. They have to work together to survive in this new world that is facing them. Danger threatens them almost immediately, and they realize that staying where they are is not in their best interests. They have to find a safer place.
A member of this newly formed family, Brian Dailey, has a father who owns horse stables in Chino, about forty miles to the east. It's less populated and they believe it will be safer than staying where they are.
When they arrive, they find things are not quite as safe as they hoped. Brian's father, Richard, has a plan. He knows of a place they can go that will be safe for their new family, because it will be far away from any big cities, but first, they have to arrange transportation, and he has a plan for that too.