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To: upchuck
This would be horrifying for the country at large.

For a realistic picture I suggest FReepers read the book One Second After. After reading that, you'll think twice when going to the grocery store. With your car running, the store stocked to the brim, both of which will rapidly stop after an EMP.

5 posted on 09/24/2018 5:15:17 PM PDT by upchuck (... I'd be toast in the next primary if I openly challenged my party's orthodoxy ~ CongressmanX)
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To: upchuck

So, rather than invest in solar and wind maybe work on protecting what’s in place? Hmmmm. Surely nobody in d.c is considering that kind of investment. Fidiots!


18 posted on 09/24/2018 5:26:17 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: upchuck

Truly a very sobering read.


24 posted on 09/24/2018 5:42:48 PM PDT by miele man
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To: upchuck

Yes. An EMP attack would destroy us totally. Estimated 90% death rate after one year.

I pray every night for God’s protection to the US from nuclear attack and EMP attack. Laugh at me if you wish. I don’t care.


34 posted on 09/24/2018 6:10:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (.End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: upchuck

Crap will eventually happen.

Georgetown Hospital’s computer system was hijacked and held for ransom.

That’s bad what is worse their employees didn’t have any training on how to use the paper back up!! Baby docs were clueless on how to write a prescription!!

Crap Happens. Where are the adults???

P.s. Thanks for the book suggestion.


36 posted on 09/24/2018 6:14:50 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: upchuck

I’ve read it again recently.

It is a good book.


38 posted on 09/24/2018 6:18:12 PM PDT by missthethunder
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To: upchuck

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.


48 posted on 09/24/2018 6:59:52 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: upchuck

“One Second After” is the most terrifying book (and the saddest) that I’ve ever read. For a while, I regretted that I ever read it.

I would much rather be vaporized, at ground zero, in a nuke blast than to live through that particular scenario. At least that would be a quick death.


70 posted on 09/24/2018 11:29:38 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
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