Imagine one crippling terror attack that disabled the electric grid in California. Would likely lead to starvation and death.
Actually it wouldn't if you had a lot of distributed generation. Fortunately CA has more of that than anywhere else in the country and plans to get to a lot more. You do make a good point that CA and the rest of the U.S. should be pushing much harder than they already are to have solar plus storage on every building. Greatly increase the robustness of our power supply and reduce the power of the monopoly electric companies, seems the obvious course of action.
California has required that all new home builds have solar, so you should be able to charge your car enough to get out of the state.
Unless you forgot to plug your nearly empty battery into the charger at night, and you get woken up by sirens at 2AM that say you have 10 minutes to evacuate from an approaching wildfire.
that would be true of centralized power generation like nuclear or large nat. gas. My understanding is Cali is the complete opposite of that.
I purchased my first home in California back in 1995. Man I loved it there back then. California real estate is dead to me now. So many problems it is sad. The left has ruined the state. It will take huge reforms to turn things around for California. The flight is real.