Foreign spies have infiltrated the US electrical grid, leaving behind software programs that could disrupt the system in a time of war, American national security officials have claimed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5123177/Chinese-and-Russian-cyberspies-penetrate-US-electrical-grid.html
You still need reasons to be prepared after 9/11, katrina, etc, etc, or is thousands of years of history not enough for you? Go have a latte and watch Friends, you dinosaur.
Wars, disasters, shortages, breakdowns of society are INEVITABLE and history is FULL, FULL, FULL of them. You ain't no different.