' good enough' is the mantra of the unimaginative and quitters.

"They never leave the city (except to be sent to slaughter.) "
not always true.

"Their stalls are appalling."
That's a blatant lie.

" Often, they don't 'like' pulling, "
You have never worked around horse, have you?

"which is an appalling stable in this case."
again,l that's a blatant lie.

hmm, someone with the name VeganCyclist whose opinion is devoid of facts. I'm shocked.

I can not imagine dealing with what a carriage driver does and not caring for horses. It would be a stupid, tiring, frustrating, and poor job to take.
They would be better off driving a cab.

What if those dog breeders had to take their dogs out into the public most days where the where scrutinized?
Plus, an abused horse make a poor animal to pull a carriage.

" especially the external dangers they face from cars or becoming panicked in the city."
How many of these trained horses panic? How many hit by automobiles?
FYI: 4 in 30 years.

"we now live in a world where the car kills more children than anything else, "
that ios a good thing. I feel you should know that's mostly due to people not using seat belts and car seats. Also, there has been a 40% reduction of deaths from auto accidents for children. Oddly enough, poisoning and suffocation are skyrocketing.

Morbid fascination:
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisq...
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/...

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You go to some fancy airports.

FYI: Electric vehicle doe snot equal golf cart. No more then Porsche = go cart.

You vastly overestimate the amount of real choice most humans have.

PETA: Pork, Eggs, Tenderloin, Alligator.
I can't believe there isn't a beef cut that doesn't start with an A.

in the next zombie movie.

The back of the blade is secure against the log, so that would minimize twisting. If it didn't this ax wouldn't work.
log splitters are slow, and more difficult to take with you into the woods.

So you did't read my link, and then made a long post which looks pretty foolish to anyone who read the link.
well done .

Modern car, less the 3% would ahve anything impact at all from EMP, and that would mostly be blinking dash lights that go away when you turn your vehicle off and back on.

"Nearly all of the available equipment that would be needed to build or repair infrastructure relies on either computers or electricity."
blatant ignorance.

"You might have that backwards."
I do not, and your post just underscores my point.

" All of the "gas" (actually mostly diesel) stations rely on the grid to pump fuel from their below-ground tanks. I'll wager you that the percentage of fueling stations with backup generators installed which would last more than a few hours is a fraction of one percent approaching zero."
exactly how long do you think it will be before people start hand pumping?
for example:
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/ind...

" Water in the cities isn't much better. "
most water is gravity fed.

You need enough water and food to walk 3 days. After that you will be out of the effects of even large earthquake.

That said, yes just keep 30 days of rotation of normal food.

"For lack of available fuel?"
Some places may require hand pumping into trucks and tanks. Fortunately, we know how to do that.

" For lack of refrigeration in the warehouses that used to store the food they deliver?"
For some foods. not every food must be refrigerated.

"For lack of whole chunks of the supply chain upstream from their knife's-edge just-in-time delivery infrastructure? "
what lack? trucks and planes will continue to operate.

" Because roads would be blocked or at least hosed up for lack of traffic control?"
tighter, but then al ot of people will be stating home. BTW >95% of vehicle s would be unaffected.

" Because people would be truck-jacking anything that looked valuable? "
no they wouldn't. Evidence shows that in a disaster that only happens when the alternative is starving.

"The entire infrastructure that brings food to people right before they actually need it is incredibly fragile."
nope. IT's only fragile to maintain the high level of efficiency we know have.

"The numbre of survivalist-type people is completely, utterly eclipsed by the number of people who have no clue about (or interest in) being sensible in an emergency."
Most survivalist types are clueless in an actual emergency.

"where people living below sea level had days of warning, and couldn't be bothered to fill up a few jugs of drinking water or move their fleet of school buses into a useful place."
That's an interesting narrative of events.

"r viable transportation for weeks or more"
stop saying that. transportation would be chaotic for a couple days, tops.

By month, I mean infrastructure issues.Not done in totality. My apologies for being unclear.

You question is answered in the link I provided.

How about less devils advocate and more reading the link?
" and if those fry"
which they wont. That is the point.

"to be able to keep communication running in case of exactly this sort of thing"
ug.