http://www.gks.uk.com/egyptian-cobra-uraeus/
Posted on 10/31/2015 7:45:21 AM PDT by Roos_Girl
If a giant solar flare hit the Earth, it could knock out the entire power grid, meaning no more new Taylor Swift singles, no more televised presidential debates, and no more Facebook photos of babies. But it wouldn't be all good news. The Washington Postreports the elecromagnetic pulse—or EMP—created by such an event could wipe out electricity for months on end, creating a global catastrophe. That's why the White House released its National Space Weather Strategy on Thursday. According to the Houston Chronicle, the multiagency plan details how the US will prepare for—and deal with—a massive EMP from space. The six-step plan requires government agencies, schools, the media, the insurance industry, nonprofits, and more to work together. In other words: We might be doomed.
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Just finished it - for the second time. Powerfull!!
The solar flare could scorch Capital Hill and the White House.
>>all the “wizards†that would be “savedâ€,
Wizards who worshiped and served created things... and because of this God gave them over?
Those kinds of Romans 1:25+ wizards?
Uhuh. What we need is more STEM for the rainbow flag flying drone pilots being trained at the Airfarce Academy. Yep. That’ll fix things. /s
>>The solar flare could scorch Capital Hill and the White House.
Well, at least the local mosquito population in that swamp land might get reduced for a while.
Remember the three “3’s”
If you’re lucky, you last:
Three minutes without air.
Three days without water.
Three weeks without food.
And that is under the best conditions.
Much easier to prepare for a coming revolution by calling it “solar storm contingency planning” then “coming revolution contingency planning”
Like how the DoD has a plan for a zombie apocalypse. Can’t exactly call “what we’ll do when EBT cards stop working”, can they?
I think coconut oil would be pretty difficult to come by. The better option would be to go ahead and make the soap and store it away for later use. Coconut oil should make a nice hard bar, as opposed to say olive oil, so a batch should last a good long time.
I didn’t take it so much as her slamming lye as just making sure people understand that it can be dangerous. Though why you wouldn’t know that I have no idea. I guess the alternative could be to make your own ash, but then the ratios change. But, I suppose that lye would get hard to come by also, so would be good to have that knowledge and skill.
He just finished the second book, One Year After, which picks up where One Second After ends.
Good read.
You remember correctly....>/p>
Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Thanks. I didn’t know there was a follow-on book. I’ll have to get it, too.
After reading One Second After, I’m not sure there’s much prep anybody could do to be ready for a disaster of this magnitude. If you have enough money to lay up everything you’ll need for a one- to two-year starvation period (food, water, fuel, ammunition, medicines), then you’ll be a juicy target for the starving hordes and roaming gangs.
I like the way the townspeople came up with rules for either staying on your own or pooling your sustenance with the community. If you do decide to go it on your own, how can you fend off the roaming gangs?
Forstchen did an excellent job thinking through human nature in such a disaster and it left me thinking most preppers are not really aware of how desperate people will be.
Also, a bug-out cabin will be pretty useless when an EMP attack happens and all transportation immediately stops dead in its tracks. Any stores you laid in at the cabin will be quickly raided by others.
If they deal with EMP like they do the economy we are doomed. :-)
I agree. Prepping for short term disasters (earthquake, etc) is fine. We have solar panels, some food, water and the like. But for EMP and such long term disasters, there is no way to prepare unless you have lots of money. You’d have to find some rural area with access to water, lots of land, build a walled compound, recruit many families with varied talents ( medical, electrical, farming, etc), have plenty of livestock and greenhouses and whatever. Plus, as you point out, you’d need advance notice of the disaster so all could meet at the appointed place. In cases other than EMP, this magical compound cannot be more than one tank of gas from everyone’s residence.
Building this compound is not high on my list. I’d rather the government do its job, which it isn’t.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to Roos_Girl for the heads up.
I almost didn’t ping this as I real didn’t want to here for the resident FR EMP experts about how such an even to a Non Sequitur and talking about it is mere fear mongering. But take a good look Paladin2’s post #25 this thread. You don’t have to lose many of those to lose the grid for a long time and when the government comes in to pick and choose who gets power and who don’t people who have already lost much will lose it!
Good points! Thx.
I would expect they (the libtards) would dominate the underground bunkers in DC. And also expect that it would chaotic at best in the bunkers over the long term.
If they are finally planning for an EMT attack, it is not the sun they are worried about.
>>it would chaotic at best in the bunkers over the long term.
The demise of any culture is seldom well documented.
Probably because they eat the wizards/scribes first.
“The preparation for solar flare is the same as the preparation for a lightning strike.... or an EMP.”
The hardening for each of those things is very different.
“Deep underground bunkers is the answer they have, hundreds of them.”
It can help, but deep underground bunkers still need connections to the surface - air, power, water. These connections to the surfaces make underground bunkers vulnerable to EMP.
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