Dig away. Anarchy will soon break out and the resourceful who are willing to reestablish free commerce are the ones that will be the first to take roots of growth again in the self-destructing nation.

If you want to make sense of everything.

A. Consider Obama's sure election at his rabidly fanatical welfarian's is assured.
B. He will plummet the nation into third world status quickly via the new tax regime / social programs / crippling debt that will all take place a few months in.
C. Power will not be re-established to swaths of the east for MONTHS. Many will freeze to death. It was however by design, and will serve well to establish Kommunist controls over the last vestiges of the United States, under a semi-guise of martial law enforcement.