When the lights go out for real — not for a few hours, but for days — the first thing that happens is a rush. Everyone scrambles for the same three things at the same time: gas, ice, and water. I have watched it happen in half a dozen states. And every time, the people who scramble are the people who did not see it coming, even though they had plenty of warning. Here is what I wish somebody had told me before I watched it happen — and what I now know from the inside because of the work I do. The