Remember TEOTWAWKI?
That could be what you are facing.
To understand the possible consequence of an EMP attack in very realistic terms do yourself a favor and read this:
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
OK I’m a little stupid on this one but just how bad would an EMP be? I have my own water well’s, gas supply with generator that will power the whole house. I understand the national impact but what about the personal?
“OK I’m a little stupid on this one but just how bad would an EMP be? I have my own water well’s, gas supply with generator that will power the whole house. I understand the national impact but what about the personal?”
Got anything with electronics in it? Your car maybe? Your generator?
I see basically three types of interruption of the power grid.
Localized outage with possibility of cascading due to multiple attacks on power stations. Blowing up or shooting out large transformers, etc. Dry run already attempted. Relatively quick recovery.
Solar Flare. It has different types of pulses. They cause disruptions depending on degree of intensity. The problem with this and the EMP attack is that they take out the large transformers which are in short supply in spare inventory and would cause loss of the grid for months to years.
EMP is similar to the Solar Flare in that they can vary in size and damage. One can affect individual electronics such as car computers, etc. Many opinions on just how bad this would be. Everything from everything fried to “just disconnect battery and reconnect and car runs fine.”
There have been many opinions about this on FR, survival blogs, government studies. I would suggest if this worries you, you should do your own research.
It is a serious concern of mine.
A bit of food storage. When we go to the grocery store, it
“looks” like there’s a LOT on the shelf. However, it is
just a few days supply for the huge number of people who
shop day and night at these stores. Stores depend on a
delivery system instead of a storage system & delivery
would be compromised in such a crisis. - Water supply.
We “can” survive with little food for a few days; but NOT
without water! Also, USE stored items and rotate them!-
An electromagnetic pulse EMP would be AWFUL, not in terms
of “immediate” killed; but the long-term effects would be
really bad. -
Keep in mind the Golden Rule - “Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.” Christ
You will be fine...until you or (more to the point) your neighbors run out of food. With no electricity, they will lose everything in their drive/freezer within a day or so unless it is cold at the time.
No gasoline deliveries, no water, no food, no medical services, no money except cash on hand, no communications except a few people with solar-powered ham radios or walkie-talkies...yeah, it is going to be “fun.” It is the ultimate in assymetric warfare - and will likely be brought to us by Jean or North Korea.
More directly on topic, Gingrich is all over this issue. If he is advising Trump, it will be addressed pretty soon after inauguration.
Here is something on the Northeast power outage in 2003.
It affected our area for a while. I don’t honestly remeber how long cause we were always losing power for one reason or another.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
How does the gas get to your generator?
An EMP bomb over the continental USA, dropped into our atmosphere from a NK satellite or other method, would mean years of hardship for all except those in the protected oligarchy class. For common folks like us, it would boil down to survival of the fittest, especially in urban areas. Unless you’re on a few 1000 acres surrounded by a shark and alligator-filled moat, running that generator would be the same as posting a huge sign in the yard saying “We have food & water & survival supplies. Now leave us alone or you may get shot!”
Starving criminals take desperate actions in desperate circumstances. Normally you defend yourself and that’s that. But like I mentioned, if you aren’t isolated, there will be an endless supply of starving and otherwise desperate people, much less the random sociopath wandering around. Just my 2 cents.
And someone ping me if you know of silent generators or solar panels disguised as something no starving person would want!
The consequences of an EMP have a temporal scope of many years. Your household supplies might last a few months at best. The lack of electricity means no commerce, no fuel supplies, no food supplies. Most water supplies have an electric pump involved between the source and consumer. You'll be in fine shape for a week or two until gas tanks run dry and store shelves are empty. The less prepared EBT ferals will be on the prowl for resources. You will have to defend yourself and your resources.
How new is your generator? If it fairly new it would knock out the ignition for it.
There's a very low percentage of the population that has what you or I have. So, it would be catastrophic.
Remember TEOTWAWKI?
That could be what you are facing.
To understand the possible consequence of an EMP attack in very realistic terms do yourself a favor and read this:
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Supposedly, as we don’t really know, anything with a microchip would be fried and non-functional.
