Posted on 11/29/2016 1:16:44 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
Dang, I envy you. That means all your monitors will be showing the Blue Screen Of Death in full-color blue, while the rest of us will be stuck with colorless Black Screens Of Death.
I am so screwed.
Laugh now and cry later seems to be how people take the solar flare thing. EMP coming from iran or even russia might be greater chance. Economic collapse is next. Communism was the #1 concern until Trump. Trump’s admin being sabotaged by the globalists is #1 now.
I bought a monochrome laser printer several years ago and printed about 2,000 pages of prepper info.
We just got on the grid after being off grid for 5 years. People in this area have only had grid for a couple of generations. No fuel for the chainsaws would be a killer. Cattle raising area so everyone would have beef for a while. I try to keep a lot of heirloom seeds on hand. We’d have to dig some root cellars real quick. I buy seed potatoes every year to grow and always buy more potatoes than we need during the rest of the year as I haven’t been trying to over winter due to the lack of root cellar.
My neighbor across the road (and down a big hill) has a spring that was mostly set up to sell bottled spring water. Not sure how many gpm but it creates a stream 3 foot wide by 1 foot deep running year round. I’ve got a 275 tank, four 55 gal drums and 50 or so 1 gallon jugs. Enough to share with the neighbors.
My food stores are a bit low so I need to work on those. We’ve got a pressure canner but I need to make a rocket stove to fit it and practice with it. I’ve got 100 lbs each of salt and sugar for curing.
If the hungry city hordes don’t come and kill us, we’ll make it. We’re 100 miles from a major city.
I actually do. :)
Don't worry about the trains being on time. Another Mussolini will be around by then.
Watch “Blast From The Past”. Good tips for building a 33-year fallout shelter.
Credible because the worst storms occur during solar minimums due to low solar plasma circulation. The current minimum is showing abnormally low solar plasma circulation. It bottoms out in 2020 but sunspots should disappear by mid-2019.
Otoh, if a ‘huge solar storm’ does occur I am not really worried at all. A great many people conflate the effects of a solar flare with a gamma ray burst. Two vastly different events. Fortunately, most modern utility equipment and expensive consumer devices use sold state circuit protection. IF, and it’s a big IF, they pop they will reset within seconds. People could lose power during peak storm activity due to repeated circuit breaker resets but I doubt it.
All a prepper really needs is a metal-shielded and grounded housing used with an outside generator or an inside generator with grounding. My generator is in my garage and wired into the house circuits. I can isolate the out door circuits which will overload during the storm. My internet is fiber to the house and the junction boxes are metal. I will have internet. There is not enough exposed cable to build up a significant charge. Same thing for my residential power. Metal casings and insulated wire. They won’t pick up a charge.
Lastly, if any one still has doubts -US power lines are hit hundreds of times a day by lightening which carries several orders of magnitude more voltage than charged particles and the lines rarely fail. If they do its usually a nearby circuit breaker which trips, then resets after a few seconds.
Always good to prepare but it would be foolish to spend more than the cost of a power generator -which is prudent to have in all types of situations.
Just watch. Within weeks or months of these kinds of stories appearing, there will appear books with titles of, “How to Become Wealthy Off of ...[insert name of disaster here]”
Laz would’ve cornered the market first.
“Somebody needs to build a new company called Vault Tech,”
Too late ... I’ve cornered the market on rad-hardened PipBoys and have the only source of weapons capable of destroying something that might be called a Deathclaw after some sort of catastrophic event that will occur sometime during the 1950s :-). Vaults are useless without these gizmos and I own them all!!!
I’ll be more than happy to sell you one for a quarter billion bottlecaps if you have to have one ...
Will the massive solar storm affect bacon? If bacon is ok, I’m ok.
Oh yes - it can be exhilarating for a day or two when you are doing it for fun.
But it drains your energy very quickly.
Camping out permanently as a way of life would take a big toll in a fairly short period of time.
Ask any vet who spent a lot of time in the boondocks or on the front lines.
Yes, and it's highly suspicious this story should be posted today of all days. Obviously someone is trying to divert our attention from the Rustbelt Recount Threads.
Well, we can't take this lying down. Time to double our efforts and post yet more RRT's.
Right , I'm with you.
No refrigeration, either smoke the bacon, or salt it,
or solar dry it, but I can eat only just so much jerky !
I'm ok with that. Better than doomed.
Build a simple Faraday cage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwhL70wSgK4
Check out all the videos in the recommended column, too!
Trump's Fault.
“Slide rules”? Meh. I don’t trust high-tech computing machines like that. I’ll stick with my abacus, thank ye kindly.
Steel metal garbage cans. Unfortunately most people use plastic bins now. Get a steel metal can and lid. Line the interior with cardboard or other insulation and duct tape securely. Store a lot of electronics gear in it for when an EM burst hits. Make sure no metal is exposed inside to mess with the electronics gear. Make sure the metal lid makes good contact with the steel can. Connect a grounding wire to the outside of the can and ground it to a cold water pipe or other grounding connection. Your items are now protected and ready to use when the zombies roam.
(Of course, that was before desktop calculators were cheap enough for classrooms to afford, and maybe not even invented yet?)
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