Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point. Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America's "Achilles heel", and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared.
The sad thing is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars hunting down "terrorists" in caves on the other side of the globe and we have been told that because of "national security" it is necessary for our private areas to be touched before we are allowed to get on an airplane, but our government is doing essentially nothing to address what is perhaps our biggest security vulnerability.
What would you and your neighbors do if the power went out and it did not ever come back on?
What would you do if an EMP attack happened in the middle of the winter and you suddenly were not able to heat your home any longer?
What would you do if all the electronics in your car got fried and you simply could not drive anywhere?
What would you do if all the supermarkets in your area shut down because food could not be transported across the country anymore?
What would you do if you were suddenly unable to call your family and friends for help?
What would you do if you were suddenly unable to get the medicine that you needed?
What would you do if your debit cards and credit cards simply did not work any longer and you could not get any of your money out of the bank?
What would you do if all of these things happened all at once?
A single EMP attack would be the worst disaster that the United States has ever seen by far.
An electromagnetic pulse could potentially fry the vast majority of all the microchips in the United States. In an instant, nearly all of our electronic devices would be rendered useless.
Yes, the federal government knows all about this. The following excerpt is from an April 2008 report by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack....
“The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil authority would threaten society itself.”
Most of us have become completely and totally dependent on electricity and technology. Without it, most of us would be in huge trouble.
The following is how an article in the Wall Street Journal described the potential consequences of an EMP attack....
No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn't be able to harvest crops and distributors wouldn't be able to get food to supermarkets. Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a "giant continental time machine" that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s.
It wouldn't be so bad if we had the knowledge and the infrastructure to live the way that they did back in the 1800s, but today that is simply not the case.
Dr. William Graham was Ronald Reagan’s science adviser and the chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. Dr. Graham believes that in the event of a large scale EMP attack, the vast majority of Americans would either freeze, starve or die from disease.
According to Graham, in the aftermath of an EMP attack life in America "would probably be something that you might imagine life to be like around the late 1800s but with several times the population we had in those days, and without the ability of the country to support and sustain all those people."
Would you be able to survive?
All of those big bank accounts may never be able to be recovered after an EMP attack. Your money might be instantly fried out of existence.
The following is what Graham believes would happen to the financial system in the event of an EMP attack....
“Most financial records are stored electronically. ATMs, which depend upon both power and telecommunications, would not be available; banks, which try to back up records but in general aren’t strongly aware of the EMP problem, would face the problem of unprotected storage and computer systems”
This is the danger of having a financial system that is so dependent on technology. We may wake up one day and find that all the money is gone.
But if an EMP attack actually happened, the biggest concern for most of us would be trying to figure out how to survive.
The president of the Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney, is convinced that a single EMP attack could result in the deaths of the vast majority of the population of the United States....
"Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can't support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity"
Are you starting to get a feel for the scope of the problem?
The sad thing is that so much could be done to protect this country from an EMP attack.
Right now, most vital U.S. military infrastructure has at least some protection from an EMP attack.
But the general population has been left completely and totally vulnerable.
It has been estimated that the entire power grid could potentially be protected for about 20 billion dollars. Considering the fact that we have spent over 400 billion dollars in Afghanistan, I think that we could afford it.
We have spent our national security dollars very, very badly and someday it is going to come back to bite us in the rear end.
Right now, other nations around the world are working feverishly to develop EMP weapons. The following is from a statement by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security on March 8th, 2005....
Russian and Chinese military scientists in open source writings describe the basic principles of nuclear weapons designed specifically to generate an enhanced-EMP effect, that they term "Super-EMP" weapons. "Super-EMP" weapons, according to these foreign open source writings, can destroy even the best protected U.S. military and civilian electronic systems.
But it is not just Russia and China that have been developing "Super-EMP" weapons. According to Newsmax, it is believed that North Korea may have tested a "Super-EMP" weapon back in 2009....
North Korea’s last round of tests, conducted in May 2009, appear to have included a “super-EMP” weapon, capable of emitting enough gamma rays to disable the electric power grid across most of the lower 48 states
Remember, all it would take is one strategically placed EMP attack to wipe out this nation.
But an EMP weapon is not the only danger that can produce this type of effect. The truth is that a really bad geomagnetic storm could also potentially produce almost as much damage.
This is something that everyone knows is one of our biggest vulnerabilities and it is something that we can make preparations for.
Yet the Bush administration and the Obama administration have just stood there and have done nothing.
Our idiocy is astounding.
General Eugene Habiger, the former head of U. S. Strategic Command, has said the following about the possibility of an EMP attack in the future....
“It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.”
Remember, this is something that could cause millions times more damage than 9/11 did.
Instead of molesting old ladies at airports and chasing goat herders around the mountains of Afghanistan, perhaps we should be addressing our largest security vulnerabilities.
But that would require using some common sense. Sadly, common sense seems to be in very short supply in Washington D.C. these days.
So if the government is not going to do anything about it, that means that it is up to you to prepare yourself and your family. This world is becoming very unstable and disasters can strike at any time.
We all saw what happened after Hurricane Katrina. The government response was a nightmare. An EMP attack would be millions of times worse and the federal government probably would not even be able to get you and your family any assistance.
You would truly be on your own.
So are you ready?
This is yet another reason why the number of preppers in the United States is exploding. A lot of people can see how the world is changing and they understand that the federal government is not going to come through for them when the chips are down.
An EMP attack could end life as we know it at any time.
It is a glaring security vulnerability and the entire world knows that it is there.
I hope that you are getting ready, because the government certainly is not.
Both my boys have spent 8+years in Boy Scouts. They go whole summers working at camps with little or no electric power. They would survive just fine.
They would survive better than most, but “just fine” is very optimistic. Disease would run rampant if no time. People are filthy and don’t know how to be any other way. If they can’t flush it, they don’t know what to do with it. Your boys knowledge will help THEM be responsible, but the rest of the “citizens” will make life literally unbearable for all. I commend you for supporting them as Scouts. It is the best education! Just wish the rest of America hat that education and we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in.
Energetics are a two edged sword. It is the ability to use the core of the earth itself as the energy source, and is available to all. The nature of this technology is such that it causes one to realize that using this as a weapon as man now already does, is like using it on yourself.Unfortunately “the people” do not know about it. Energetics in non living systems, bioenergetics in living systems, and psycoenergetics in control over thought and emotion. The EMP can be used, but several nations have it, so there is some deterrent against it, just like Nuclear. THERE CAN BE NO WINNER The technologies I describe already use the earth as a weapon, amplified and precision improved, using the global geoengineering known as chemtrails. The next item aside from economic collapse to cause people to beg for a replacement economic system which will be cashless as the mark of the beast, will be the collapse of the New Madrid Fault. It was begun with the Gulf oil spill to weaken the salt dome holding back the land mass in it’s place, now dissolving and inturrupting the heat transferr of the oceans. Combined with escaping gasses killing birds and the fish, it combines with ELF to confuse and destroy everything from beaching whales and dolphins to birds bats and bees. The resulting release of barium can be added to our now electromagnetic plasma geoengineered environment to produce effective 3D imaging to go along with the HD tv and psycotronics to lead people to believe with their own senses whatever scenario is going to have the effect their supercomputer modeling has predicted. The rip in the magnitosphere from this will kill anyone outside in daylight during the pole shift, which will happen within a few years of the arrival of Nemisis. Many already know of the DUMB and the report of Phil Schneider witnessing the issuance of orders from the fallen in the flesh to members of the UN in line with Agenda 21. For better understanding of these issues, I have assembled my own blog authorthat.wordpress.com The Blogathoin Philabuster. For your consideration.
authorthat,
Wow mate! What in hell have you been smoking, snorting, shooting, etc. This read like some alphabet diarhea! Sure hope you were joshing!
Note to editor: the Internet was made for military / civil communication during and after a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. We wouldn’t be exchanging info over the net had it not been for an EMP threat.
Old school tech is still around. The government recently took over analog. There are still coal fired electrical plants. Most of the machinery would still work, all you’d have to do is gut out the wiring. You don’t need electronics to operate an old school boiler.
The Amish have done without all of this stuff for years. The Mormons could probably get along without it too.
I think you’re oversimplifying things. Sure, on a small level, you could get things working with old school tech-but do we have the spares and parts and know-how to do it at a national level? If you get the juice running in Pittsburgh, can you still keep the grid up in Northern VA? I doubt it. And where is the coal going to come from for your plant if the net is down, the highways are blocked, the trains aren’t running because their diesel isn’t being pumped or refined. It’s a massive “For want of a horseshoe…” kind of problem.
And don’t forget the human factor. In the NYC blackout in, what, 1977?, the locals were rioting quickly, looting, and burning down their own neighborhoods. In an EMP, especially in this current climate, you would probably see widespread looting, rioting, and random violence. With limited law enforcement and government resources available, and possibly little or no transportation, the authorities would be hard-pressed to keep order.
True, but we don’t really know what could happen in the event of an EMP attack. At least wen do know that all things Electrical-Magnetic would be fried which means good-bye RFID and Facial recognition tech as well as credit and debit cards. At the same time, the shock from the EMP attack will knock out power, but we will quickly rebound because our power doesn’t come from magnets. Our power comes from water, coal, and nuclear energy. This means that it will take about a week for power to be restored. It took about a day and a half during the last power outage to hit the northeast US, including New York City, which was during August of 2003.
As with all things RFID, Facial Recognition, and Credit and Debit cards, they will become more than worthless, and Cash will not only be king, but become a God.
Jessy S.
Sorry to say, that financial records are now kept on super computers inside of mountains. Personal debt will be the safest thing in an EMP attack.
I see a lot of folks commenting that anyone crazy enough to do this wouldn’t because of retaliation. First, we would have to know who actually did it in order to retaliate. Second, considering the current administration, I doubt anything would be considered great enough “proof”. But back to the first point. When any type of munition is used forensics can determine what type of explosives have been used. The same is true of nuclear weapons and even more so, we can use that analysis and “signature” (both pre and post-explosion) to determine its origin quite accurately. One big problem in this EMP scenario, with a blast at anywhere near the altitude necessary to cover a significant area, there would be no residue to analyze. The only way we would know who the attacker was would be observing the launch of said missile. Launched at sea, from a freighter of unknown origin with a crew ready to sacrifice themselves and scuttle their ship, we would not have a clue of who to blame.
Oh yes, BTW, among the documents obtained after the “fall” of the Soviet Union (also confirmed by testimony of former military officers) we discovered that that they had already developed those EMO “super weapons” and they are much smaller than 30 megatons, not even in the megaton range.
The forensic equipment, if it existed, would probably be fried, too. Then again, if they cut our juice, I’m sure the DOD would be happy to fry every suspect nation out there, just on principle. I wonder if anyone would be in a rush to help us reconstruct or if the surviving nations would happily let America devour itself, perhaps with the intention of turning us into a pastoral 3rd world nation, as they intended to do to Germany after WWI and WWII?
You know I hear a lot about this “reducing the population” talk that the elites have in mind for us. Do I doubt that is there plan? No. But think of the logistics? How would they do it? Cremation? Can you think of the mere tonage of burning that would have to be done to get rid of 80% of the population? And here is another thought. Would citizens of this country, and every other country stand for this? Would there be no resistance? How would they accomplish this “population reduction”? Gasing us? Nuking us? If the elites have so much power and control then why don’t they just do it! Just rid the planet of the useless eaters and just get it over with already? Ask yourself this…if this is their plan? Why don’t they just do it?
Could it be they don’t have as much power as you think? Could it be an illusion?
Hmmmmm….
By controlling the water needed to grow food, drink, etc., like they are doing in the central valley for the last to yrs. in Ca. No food, limited access to clean water, no new refineries=limited fuel,and so on, voila, perfect storm. Read sbout Agenda21 and check to see if your state, county, or city are implimenting ICLEI guide lines. The ICLEI bribe cities and counties with grants and other funds
that blind them to the fact that they are just useful clowns.
Great topic, Michael!
EMP scares the hell out of me. Frugal Squirrel carries a great fanfic article by a member you can read free of charge, Lights Out. It’s a great way to get newbies clued into the danger. One Second After is a great recent book, too.
I’m all about preparing for the worst, but unless everyone around you is, too, I fear that prepping will turn you into a giant target. Then again, perhaps your mountain of supplies will go overlooked until everyone around you is too weak to do anything about it? In a situation like this, I’m afraid you would need to be far, far away from every other person to be truly safe. EMP scares the hell out of me.
Thanks Guido. Hopefully we can get more Americans educated about EMP.
And by the way, you always leave really good comments.
Michael
Thank you. I really like your site and there are so many topics and ideas to trade and discuss. Sometimes, it is over-stimulating.
LOL
I try my best to keep things exciting around here.
Michael
People just loved to be SCARED, don’t they? (For some, it’s addictive) It starts when we’re kids; Everyone loves a good ghost story. Hollywood knows it, and makes a ton from horror movies and disaster flicks ad nauseum. But I’ll tell you who you should really fear. Fear him who after he’s killed the body has power to throw both body and soul into hell. And no matter what happens to the USA in the next 5 or 10 years, eventually each of us is going to stand before our creator to answer for our lives. Pray to God you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior when you do. Once saved, all fear is gone!
All these comments about death: the most horrific thing people can imagine. Stop a minute and ask yourselves, “Why IS death so terrifying?” Answer: It is because A) we know intuitively that death is not the end, B) we’re terrified of what comes next, and C) we have a innate fear it may involve judgement. Now, you may argue that, but one thing is clear– we ALL must and will die. Whether it comes from an EMP blast, or a sudden coronary in the next 4 minutes, lets not delude ourselves to think any one of us will somehow be exempt in any case. This temporal life is but a vapor in time. Actually, eternity is so much more important. Sadly, this is mostly ignored today– apparently in hopes it will go away. But it won’t. Trust Jesus Christ for your eternal destiny TODAY. He is the way, the truth, and the life. Trust him for your eternity, please. Then no matter what happens, you can’t loose. Read the gospel of John today. God bless.
Maybe so, but I’m not going to do anything to bring it on sooner. I’m still going to buckle my seat belt, try to eat right, avoid walking in traffic, and get a seat in the exit aisle. As the Muslims say, Trust Allah, but tie up your camel…
Ken, may God bless you for saying TRUTH and save your Deathless Soul for the Eternal Life in Heaven! I just wish every human being could hear and wake up before it is too late and prepare to meet the One and Only Fair Judge coming VERY SOON!
Meh… I’m going fishing. Shut the whole damn world off, and I’ll just laugh.
I’m really surprised at most of the comments.Most downplayed the threat. In the first place the person who alluded to vehicles starting after an nuclear explosion did not read the full study of the test. Most of the vehicles restarted with 25kV/m.Raising the voltage to 50kV/m shuts down more vehicles. Remember it only take one or two vehicles shutting down permanently, which some did during the test, on a major interstate to block traffic. Going even higher EMP yield shuts down even a larger percent of traffic, meaning MORE vehicles blocking roads and …even worse bridges. As for shielding against EMP, alot of that was disproved by the Indian government recently. In other words, a Faraday box doesn’t guarantee protection against the threat.By the way, they found there is an energy surge that follows an intial attack within the electronic devices themselves that causes even more damage to the devices 10 to 15 minutes later. Finally, the REAL threat is not to vehicles shutting down and not restarting, it is to the electric power grid. Shut down all electricity in major parts of the country for a couple of weeks or longer, THEN you’ll see some real problems. Read the book, EMP Survival. It explains the realities of what to expect with an EMP attack. Also, read the report of the EMP Commission on what to expect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odJKYTzXg8&feature=player_embedded#!
Here is an actual car being EMPd at WSMR, NM on Future Weapons. They generate a pulse and kill the car-however, the battery survives and continues to power the windows and the dash lights. That’s it. No start. They mention prepping the fuel tank to insure it can’t ignite, but do not state that is an effect. Just thought I would share…
As far as testing of cars by the government they did not test the cars to a full emp. they were rentals and they had to be returned. There was not enough mney in the budget to completely test them. Then only tested until they got a mild response from the vehicles. This is covered in the final report and also on EMPACT radio.
Also an nuclear emp has 2 pulses and the solar has only one. Protection agains solar is not protection again nuclear one.
Oh and if anyone thinks that there would be blast and radiaton damage they are wrong. You make it go off about 70 to 80 miles up . All this is expained on a lot of sites on the internet. Just search emp.
There would be a loss of life in this country of about 75 to 85 percent with in a 6 to 12 month period.
Mainly because there would be no food to feed 325 million people. There would be very little if any transportaion for food and other items. If you were not able to clean your own river water or catch rainwater you will not have a supply of water in the cities.
An emp is a serious concern. I read that a one kiloton bomb blown up 40 miles up over the midwest would decimate the entire electrical grid because it would travel through the wires and substations to every part of the north american continent, including Canada and Mexico. Within a year there would only be 1% of the population left not the 10% that the article cites.
You know the real problem is having access to land to provide for ourselves what we need. The system has carefully and deliberately made most americans landless, thus permanent slaves to othr people, mainly the elites. An emp may make it possible for people to once again spread out and gain enough land to take care of themselves. Just a thought.
The biggest problem resulting from no electricity, is that nuclear power plants and many years worth of stored spent fuel rods would melt down. A large portion of the U.S. would become the “lake of fire” mentioned in Revelation.
A solar flair has more EMP potential than ALL of man’s bombs….put your radios and sensitive gear in a metal trashcan (ammo???) and hope that enough of us engineers get the alternative power going because the grid WILL be FUBAR.
Sounds like a challenge/adventure.I hadn’t heard the one about nails heating-up since I first put in a woodburner back in “82,lol’s.
I have been reading online for over a decade.
I do not know how I came upon the website of
Rob Bast,”Survive 2012″,”Survival Blog” and a host
of other things,but I became infatuated with the
idea of living in a similar manner to the Pilgrims,basically taking care of yourself.
I have put together ample food supplies,fresh
water,1st aid supplies,gasoline and at least 1000
rounds of ammo for each of my 7 firearms,so I will
be prepared. I have to mention,I am 6o y/o and
pretty much crippled from a fall thanks to my
clumsiness and the incompetence and arrogance
of roland vance askins (Sarasota)the attending
orthopedic surgeon who has left me in this way.
I like my air conditioning and H/D TV,and I
would have to say good bye to the luxuries,but
In am ready. Please,everyone prepare yourselves
for the worst and live like the best.
OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOING TO TAKE CARE OF US.
Look what happened in the aftermath of “Katrina”
and why the people responsible for disaster relief were not imprisoned I do not know.
Our society seems to reward corrupt government
officials,I say life imprisonment!
Right on Steve! I’m with you!
I know where im going, Steves house.. I can take a 60yr old cripple… lol j/k
Suzan wins “MOST OBVIOUS MISSED REASON IT’S ALL FUTILE”
Yes, there are hundreds of nuke plants that would in short order fail just like Fukushima. They generate electricity, but for some reason require outside sources of electricity to operate. Once the diesel gennys run out of juice, the plant runs out of juice, and the explosions and meltdowns begin.
On a comforting note, the Russians and Chinese know this and know the entire world will become a radioactive dead zone. Therefore they will never do this to us. Likewise we will never do this to a country or region with any number of nuke plants.
However, do the Iranians care what happens once Great Satan is hobbled? I have no idea. Certainly a state apparatus would be required to perform such a stunt, so are we sure about the ones that want to? Whether or not they care if the entire world is fried and lifeless? That’s the real question.
“On a comforting note, the Russians and Chinese know this and know the entire world will become a radioactive dead zone. Therefore they will never do this to us.”
Philistine, exactly–so I tend not to worry too much about weaponized EMPs, except when I’m really paranoid and wonder if some raving nutcase might damn well just push the button anyway and to hell with the consequences.
HOWEVER…
EMP generated by solar flares are another story. They could cause all the same devastation as a nuke EMP, and apparently the sun’s in a very active phase right now. Some people are extremely concerned about another Carrington event-level solar flare. But hey. Between that, the Yellowstone caldera, the world financial markets blowing up, pandemic flu, and Peak Everything, something’s going to happen before too long to reduce our population.
Good luck, everyone, and keep prepping!
If you have not read either “Lights Out” or “One Second After”, you should.
Iran fired a missile over the Caspian Sea several years ago that detonated at apogee; they called it a success.
Remember that missile launched off California earlier this year? Chinese SLBM sending us a message: We can do it if we choose to.
Look at it this way; if you are prepared for an EMP, you’re prepared for ANYTHING short of an asteroid strike.
http://www.amazon.com/Grid-Down-Reality-Bites-survive/dp/1460980387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316546851&sr=8-1
Product Description
A fictional account of the end of the world after an Electro Magnetic Pulse Bomb (EMP) hits America and takes out the entire electrical grid. Americans fall into chaos, and survival of the fittest is the only way to turn. Three different groups try to survive the collapse of America.
So has anyone read One Second After? I live in a very rual area, lots of old cars still around.We are use long winters. Back in the 90′s we had a ice storm here in Maine and some of us did not have power for 6 months. But what worries me the most about an EMP attack is getting medicine for the old folks and people with diabetes. I have been looking for some natural replacement for insulin. There does not appear to be any for type 2 diabetes. Does any one have any ideas? Lynda
Lose weight
you are an idiot
Anon is right. Common sense. Americans are by and large grotesquely overweight. Negligence is basically suicide. The fat/obese ones will go first in any emergency scenario. You would think people would respect their bodies. Inflation is already increasing the cost of food. Diabetes is largely influenced by diet. If you eat like a glutton and/or do not exercise you are going to have a slow painful death. Diabetes leads to heart attacks and your limbs can rot off. Best to prevent this type of self induced idiocy.
Simple, yet profound!
There is an excellent fictional book based on an EMP attack that I haven’t seen mentioned in the first page or two of comments….
The book is One Second After by William Forstchen. Lights Out by David Crawford is also a good read. They can both be found at Amazon or which ever book stores that are still in business.
Either of these books will lend some dire perspective to the persons here posting about “just going fishing” and the like.
Beans, Bullets, Bandaids, and gold/silver…….
I think you can still download Lights Out free of charge, or at least it used to be available, from Frugalsquirrel. If it isn’t up there, someone probably has it mirrored somewhere.
Sorry, I’ve read it off and on for years free of charge online. Now it’s gotten published and they removed all online versions. It’s still out there, if you look for it hard enough…
For Ken: Obviously you have read the scriptures, and your references are accurate. Many church goers think and feel the same. However, the “words” will not save you. You can believe as hard as you want, and think anything you want, but the reality is that none of that will “save” you, either spiritually or physically. Do you know what is on the other side? What are his commandments? Do you do the works he did, or greater works? Can you explain “Sin” or “Faith” without referencing scriptures? If you haven’t done, or cannot do any of these, you might want to stop hoping in hope and start preparing. When was the last time you “spoke” and created a situation? The scriptures can never be used to argue a position. When was the last time you had a situation “bound” or “loosed”, and it happened immediately? What does “worship” and the word “Believe” mean? He is Lord AND God. What is a God? Go ahead and start preparing…
Some of you people kill me when it comes to end of the world events. You still say “gold and silver” like purple are really going to care about money. I have a wife and daughter. I’m not worried about money. I’m going to Shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more them we can talk about gold and silver
People not purple
Anyone in a city is doomed. Eat your dog and try to get out. There will be no water, fuel, heat, food, security….. nothing. However, people who live off nature instead of the system will be OK to an extent. He who is first will be last and he who is last will be first. Apart from nuclear plants melting down, the biggest threat will come from other humans, most of which will act very inhuman. Form your own hippy tribe real quick and help eachother with self defence, food production etc. As for modern technology, we don’t need it, we only want it. Those who have lost all the skills needed to live without this technology will become extinct real quick.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/emp_the_greatest_threat_to_america_and_what_we_can_do_about_it.html
A little late, I know, but American Thinker just ran an EMP article. A lot of folks are poo-pooing the issue, but EMPactAmerica is trying to get the government to pass legislation and take action to prevent total destruction. I doubt anything will change, but anything that gets more people aware is good.
Update Michael, Last night I was listening to a solar expert he says that the sun is going haywire in sunspot and solar flare activity. A sunspot just released a massive flare that we should be feeling in our atmosphere any time now. Its funny how the MSM dosent seem to think that this is a big deal but as the sun moves into solar maximum next year the potential for more massive flares to destroy our satelites and our electrical grid increases.
JD:
Yes, I have been hearing about that too. I definitely think we need to watch the sun.
Michael
If anyone has taken the time to research the actual emp simulation tests on the vehicles they will find that they were not tested to a complete emp pulse. They were only tested up until they started showing a small effect. Why ? The test vehicles were almost all rentals , and there was not enough funds to purchase all the vehicles if they were damaged. This was for the Nuclear emp only , as far as i have been able to tell.
Good resource for emp data and info is Empact America. They have a weekly podcast on emp related stuff every Wednesday, and Dr Peter Vincent Pry is running it.
If EMP doomsday strikes, it would be nice to be living on a cabin in the mountains of Wyoming, drinking fresh water from a mountain stream, staying warm with a wood-burning stove, catching fish with a net, hoping my half acre potato crop survives the latest pest infestation, and greeting strange cars in my driveway with a salute from my shotgun.
It would be nice…but I wouldn’t live very long. Without the miracle of modern medicine in the form of a daily hormone dosage, my health would slowly deteriorate. I’d soon be unable to do much physical exertion. My immune system would weaken. I wouldn’t be able to fish or gather firewood or plant potatoes. I’d probably be dead about the same time as the guy in the Manhattan high rise who hopped on the boat to Bermuda.
If the electronics in the nuclear power plants are damaged and the generators are blown by an EMP or Carrington Event we wont have generators to bring them to shutdown. So you could have 20 50 or 80 fukishima’s happening at the same time. If we have even 20 nuclear plants blow do you think your survival techniques are gonna help.
Take time to pray and things will workout.
Fallout 3 may actully happen…..without the radiation and mutants
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No Power, No internet??? HOw will the Amish survive-they barely keep pace now!
If watching the learned helplessness after Hurricane Katrina didn’t convince you to BE PREPARED because you’ll be on your own in a disaster, this article should help you wake the hell up before hell wakes you up.