Posted on 09/24/2018 5:09:22 PM PDT by upchuck
BFL
I did about 15 years ago. It woke me up. I now have a years' worth of food, 4600 watts of solar power, 2 sources of water and the hardware and ammo to protect it.
Also an old non-computerized Jeep, HAM radios, and a bunch of other stuff I hope I never need.
Our side looks at this kind of thing the wrong way. If all the power goes out, local detectives will be completely overwhelmed and unable to investigate corpses that turn up in ditches.
“I hear doing it would be relatively cheap, like 2 billion for basic protection, and 10 billion for everything.
Why this hasn’t been done puzzles me, and it should puzzle you too.”
They want us dead.
Wow, great prep. Nothing like that here.
Pfl
Maybe if Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. would get in the business it would happen.
Naw, let's buy some F-35s and find some pre-industrial societies to bomb instead...
Most vehicles are (a)Constructed of steel that surrounds the vast majority of possibly sensitive electronics, thereby acting as a Faraday Cage, and (B) NOT grounded, which further reduces the effects of the magnetic storm that comprises an EMP.
The grid itself is definitely a HUGE vulnerability, but don’t let’s create unwarranted worry.
That said, I have a couple of EMP PROOF vehicles. Breaker points are invulnerable to magnetic storms. They’re just nowhere near as efficient. The condenser may fail, but the vehicle can run without it.
Population was <1% what is now, would probably get back to that level pretty quickly too.
You are so screwed.
A modern house would not last long compared to the old houses with wood heat and cooking. How many know how to cook on a wood stove? How many wood stoves do you see around? That and a thousand other things people used to know how to do.
Those numbers *might* represent 20%. MAYBE. The grid is far more intricate and widespread for that little bit of money’s effectiveness.
I know. Right?
So far, that seems to be the plan.
Flash! Headline! Yeah... We’ve been reading this for a decade.
Congress is too busy at the moment to concern themselves with matters of national security. They’re deciding who felt whom in high school and fielding complaints from lifelong flirts who seek to ruin honest men for their own misdeeds.
It’s all much more juicy than national security. Welcome to The Swamp.
Well most people think they are. For one or more reasons. Normalcy bias. Or what I call societal inertia.
How many people know HOW to cook - not from can or freezer? (BTW, I watched my Great Grandma cook on a wood stove...heated with coal, I think...
That’s also right. Normalcy bias transcends all levels of society.
Cascading failures will affect huge sections, if not all, of the national grid.
Go Texas!
People dont even know how to grill with out propane.
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