complete electrical failure in IMC

"Finding VFR" is going to be difficult (with no comm) unless you noted
it during flight planning. So thinking through this should help you
resolve to, prior to departure IMC,

A) Know which direction or in which region the best conditions exist,
i.e. "which direction do I head if things really go bad"

B) Have good batteries in your handheld GPS, and fresh spare batteries
in your flight bag.

My handheld GPS is just a cheap hiker's GEKO ($100), but I usually turn
it on and throw it on the dash to record my flight track. But for IMC
flight, in addition to the battery check, I always have an airport
waypoint set as the navigation destination. I usually choose the
departure or destination airport-- one that I'm familiar with the
approaches or at least have reviewed them and have them out on my
clipboard. The nav page of the Geko is set to display track, desired
track, distance, and altitude. I must admit that I haven't yet
simulated such a scenario yet, but its on my "training todo list". I'm
thinking it will work ok in a daylight scenario, even if I have to hold
it in my hand. But a nighttime scenario might be pretty dicey trying
to manage the flashlight(s) and handheld gps. A passenger could help
for that though.

I don't even own a handheld tranceiver. My thinking is that I
shouldn't even consider the distraction of communicating in this
scenario. Would like to hear other opinions though...

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ