Posted on 12/10/2013 4:05:30 PM PST by Kartographer
If a solar kill shot were to occur and short out the electrical power grid, it has been estimated that some nine out of ten Americans would be dead within one year as transportation systems broke down, food delivery ceased, commerce systems no longer functioned, communications equipment became inoperable and utilities, such as water treatment plants, were incapable of delivery services.
The ramifications would be serious and almost immediate according to a 132-page NASA funded report on Understanding the Economic and Societal Impacts of Severe Space Weather:
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
He found more than 350 transformers at risk of permanent damage and 130 million people without power.
The loss of electricity would ripple across the social infrastructure with “water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, fuel re-supply and so on.”
Preppers’ PING!!
I'll pick at that one. As long as humans have something to trade, commerce will continue.
I, of course, am ready to trade home-grown tobacco or beer for teen-age girls that can pull a plow, silver coins, or .22LR ammo (No Russian Steel Case). And that's just during the Obama regime...
/johnny
We are going to need a global government and a tax on fuel in order to protect ourselves.
Well then, heck -- everyone only needs a single shot weapon. That'll do her when time comes to put out their own lights.
I’m stocking up on bitcoins.
I am so not screwed.
The Romans used a sponge on a stick for toilet paper... just sayin....
/johnny
/johnny
I for one am very pleased that you are so not screwed. The thought of a dystopian wasteland without Laz is too much to bear.
sadly I don’t think it would take a year for 9 out of 10 to die.
Search for 9 meals to anarchy. Few would make it past 30 days.
death rates would be close to 99% among certain geographies and attitudes/cultures. other ares would survive and eventually thrive again, albeit at a slower pace than today.
Plus a lot of people would have to trade their city-boy hands for working-man hands.
here’s just one of many articles writing along the “nine meals”
http://www.thesurvivalprepper.com/9-Meals-From-Anarchy.html
Are you trying to crack the other side of your slab, too?
Excuse me?? 7 million miles per hour?
Would such a solar event be hemispherical in nature, or global?
At least that's what we were taught at culinary school.
/johnny
/johnny
Slower then the speed of light, because its particles I think.
Also the 1989 event didn't give rise to reports at the antipodes.
/johnny
I think the initial effects would be whichever side of the earth was facing the sun when the particles hit.
Probably some bleed over and secondary damage
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