How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack: ‘These Systems Could Be Completely Inoperable or Breached’

SHTF Plan ^ | 7/12/15 | Daisy Luther

[Kartographer]

How does a cyber attack affect you?

You may think that if you don’t spend your day working online, that an attack on our computer infrastructure isn’t that big of a deal. You may feel like it wouldn’t affect you at all.

Unfortunately, there are very few people in the country that would remain completely unaffected in the event of a major cyber attack. Our economy, our utility grids, and our transportation systems are all heavily reliant upon computers. This makes us very vulnerable to such an attack.

And by vulnerable, I mean that if it was done on a big enough scale, it could essentially paralyze the entire country.

[RedStateRocker]

Water and waste are the biggies. Food for anything up to a few years is pretty achievable; in the absence of water and sewer, those of us in cities are hosed without an alternative. No problem to have a year or two of canned and freeze dried goods, but storing or purifying water and disposing of waste are more difficult and more critical to sustaining life and health.

[Hardens Hollow]

“I have my own Deep Well and can draw water Manually if need be (not much but with a little manual labor enough to get by with)”

We are on utility water but want to get our 400’ well operational again, just in case. A manual pump costs about the same as electric, strangely. But I think that’s the way we’ll go.

[Roos_Girl]

Oh man, that cast iron is going to be a bear to get a valve on. At least it’s not old clay pipe. Did you know they still use cast iron pipe for sewer mains? Usually force main.

I hope you don’t find the whole service crumbling when you dig it up. You should be able to get your City to give you information about elevations of your home versus the top of wet well elevation for the lift station that the gravity feed you’re tied into goes to. Compare the elevation of the house to the top of wet well elevation. If the house is lower then the valve is a good idea. If the house is higher then I think it’s an unnecessary expense; the wet well will overflow first. Of course you want some factor of safety of a few feet, and when I say house I mean whatever is the lowest thing hooked to sewer. So if you have a sunken shower in the basement, that’s the elevation you’d want to estimate from the finished floor elevation of the house.

[NTHockey]

Power tools - all those nice things that make life easier won’t work. Invest in hand powered tools. All my power tools, except chain saw, have manual backups.

[trebb]

Shouldn’t be too expensive to get an anti-backup valve installed (my grinder pump has one). I have friends who had raw sewage back up and fill their house with almost 8” of the crap - it was a huge task/expense to make the house livable again and they now have the ability to defend against a repeat.

[Blueflag]

Of course.

Yeah very few homes are equipped with a black water shutoff.

My bad.

[bgill]

Can’t remember which disaster it was but obama’s people were housed in a school in the inner city and they nearly destroyed it by pooping in the halls and all over after the toilets were intentionally clogged.

[IYAS9YAS]

The water line has a cutoff valve, but he’s talking about the sewer line. That can flow into the house if it gets backed up.

That is one nice thing about having a septic system.

In Rio Rancho, NM, the sewer portion of the monthly water/sewer bill is actually slightly higher than the water portion. It more than doubles your water bill. I'm in the original part of town, and on a 1/2-acre lot with city water, but have a septic tank.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

how to take a 5 gal bucket one of those kiddy swim noodles and plastic bags

I purchased a set of 3 toilet seats designed to fit onto a 5 gallon bucket. Line with heavy duty plastic trash bag and use saw dust and lime, etc to fill in after use.

[tbw2]

A couple of solutions:
* a month’s expenses in cash at home to pay for things when the financial network is down
* at least a month’s necessities in the house so you don’t have to pay for most things when the financial network is down
* pay ahead on all utilities and regular bills so you don’t have to worry about being unable to pay the utilities if the financial network is down
* personal generator, fuel on site to run it, or renewable power and batteries
* maintain a landline and/or multiple cell phones
* have a way to earn money that doesn’t require telecommuting/blogging/online sales and gets you paid without relying on a direct deposit

[Iron Munro]

We are on utility water but want to get our 400’ well operational again, just in case. A manual pump costs about the same as electric, strangely. But I think that’s the way we’ll go.

A "well bucket" or "bailer bucket" is one solution to manually pulling water from a drilled well.

You can make one yourself or buy them ready made.

Here are a couple links to get started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SERwTNJki10

http://americanpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=36709

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzD6k2OoQ5Y

http://waterbuckpump.com/buckettripod-order-form/