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If you live in an inner city, this is probably how you receive goods and services:

You have treated water in your tap that is pumped from a reservoir system by electricity, treatments are chemical additives trucked or trained in from production facilities.

Food is, either convenience at the corner Bodega or a few blocks away from a grocery store, trucked into the city from distribution centers that receive it from truck, train or plane all which currently run on fossil fuels.

Heat is either gas, oil or electricity which is supplied through a central complex infrastructure unique to each.

Sewer waste is processed through a facility usually outside of city limits by means of underground pipes and catacombs.

Garbage and recycling is trucked out of the city to land fill sites and processing facilities often hundreds of miles away. Any disruption to any one of these systems, bridges, railways, roadways, pipelines, or the energy consumed by these systems results in a domino effect of failure.
This is only a small example of the complex structure of running a city with dense housing and population. Now imagine how easy it would be to disrupt any of these systems and the danger everyone would be in.
You can survive a disaster in a city but only with planning, strength, ability, knowledge and a huge amount of luck. Preparing for disaster is no joke.
Read Selco Begovic's book "SHTF Survival Stories: Memories from the Balkan War" Unless you've lived through it, you just don't know.
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