Zombie apocalypse - utilities and infrastructure

[Sansha]

Aeiou.

So I was wondering, after watching the newer Dawn of the Dead, if the world goes to sweet gory zombie hell, how long would it take for the power and internet to go down?

How long can power plants run unattended? Until they run out of fuel? Would a nuclear power station run uninterrupted or would it eventually overheat and melt down?

Are ISP servers capable of running and keeping people connected without human maintenance? What about website and hosting servers? Would online games keep working without people in the offices or techies keeping the hardware running? Or would the servers eventually overheat and die, or glitch and crash without anyone to fix the problem?

Would the water system continue to function? How long would my taps run with clean water before I'd have to go in search for more?

Everyone has some degree of a zombie plan, from the casual 'guns + holdout' to the obsessive fella with several plans for different contingencies and his equipment ready at a moment's notice, but what I want to discuss is how long our familiar, comfortable utilities would hold out before the lights flicker and die, my ISP stops talking to my modem, the water runs brown or not at all and the phones give that horrifying little 'beeeeeeee' we all hate so much.

 

[darkless]

Phones and internet would be gone in a matter of days, no one to manange them means every little problem soon becomes lots of really big problems, water I imagine would last a week or 2 depending on how many people are filling every container they have, even with a big draw there is a lot of water in a resevoir.

Power on the other hand depends on when the military decide to bug out and evacuate people, because they will take the time to shut down power plants before they go, last thing you want to come home to after defeating the zombie hordes is a smocking crater.

 

[Sansha]

Phones and internet would be gone in a matter of days, no one to manange them means every little problem soon becomes lots of really big problems, water I imagine would last a week or 2 depending on how many people are filling every container they have, even with a big draw there is a lot of water in a resevoir.

Power on the other hand depends on when the military decide to bug out and evacuate people, because they will take the time to shut down power plants before they go, last thing you want to come home to after defeating the zombie hordes is a smocking crater.

Well what happens to power plants if left unattended? Do they just run out of fuel?

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

If you Wanna know what stuff Would be like if we Stopped taking care of it, try Watching Life after People