10 Things to Have Ready before the Huge EMP !!!

Ask a Prepper ^ | Claude Davis

[ClaudeDavis]

Dr. Peter Pry (Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security) warns that the consequences - of not being prepared for this event - are much more severe than one may think:

“within a year of an EMP event at least 2 thirds or the us population will perish from starvation, disease and social collapse”

Former CIA double agent (Reza Kahlili) who spent time in the Iranian Army confirmed that the Iranian have conducted missile tests of ships in the Caspian See that are consistent with an EMP attack:

“They are going to get to the Gulf of Mexico with ballistic missiles and they can launch one at a moment’s notice and they wouldn’t care about the repercussions”

Mostly because they can sink the vessel leaving no traces and because the US won’t be able to retaliate!

What if you woke up one morning and nothing worked? What if there was no electricity? What if all transportation came to a halt?

An EMP event would instantly destroy any means of telecommunication, bank account would disappear, planes would fall from the skies, nuclear plants would not be able to cool down the reactors, we would have no running water (water pumps) and every piece of electronics we use from pacemakers to phones to gasoline pumps would stop!

Your refrigerator will stop working and all your food will spoil in a matter of days! If you and your family are not together, you won’t be able to contact or see them.

This is a catastrophic threat and North Korea, China, Iran, Russia and even ISIS… they all understand it and they are all working on it.

Read more at: askaprepper.com

[Hawthorn]

>> That’s what caching and creative concealment is for <<

Hiding your water and food and ammo? What are going to do when they run out?

[LadyBuck]

Without violating OPSEC, lets just say running out of food, water & ammo is no longer our biggest concern in our current location.

Starvation and illness will take the fight out of most rampaging mobs, who will no longer rampage in an area that was already picked over multiple times.

Ideally situated, a prepper’s best friend could be a major EMP. Sick, starved hordes will not be able to travel as far to cause mayhem.

[Stand Watch Listen]

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I have the Deadwood stove.

[Marcella]

I believe the first rocket stove was made by Stovetec. I have their “Eco Ceramic One Door Wood and Biomass Cook Stove”. Today's price is $109. It says it is lightweight, weighing 50% less than older ones. Mine would be an older one and I can tell you it is HEAVY. That is okay for it will be used at my house - not carrying it in a backpack which would be almost impossible due to its weight. Here it is:

http://stovetecstore.net/product/biomass-cookstove-one-door-eco-ceramic/

[Marcella]

Hawthorn, I said to Jane: “We will survive.”
You said, “Wrong. No matter how much food and how much ammo and how many batteries you have stockpiled, rampaging urban mobs will take them away from you — that is, if your stockpiles don’t all run out first.”

With your defeatist attitude, I don't think you will live long in a country wide emergency/breakdown. If you research what mobs actually do, inner city mobs stay where they are familiar and rob/kill in that area. By the time they try to move out to other areas, they are weaker and many will die from infighting among themselves, plus there won't be gasoline for vehicles before they move out, so there is less of them and no fast way to travel. I doubt many Freepers live in inner cities where there is already violence.

Keeping a low profile makes one safer. No one living around me knows what I have and in an emergency, they still won't know.

It is true that stored food will eventually run out - so it's important to know how to grow food and start growing it at the first sign of an emergency if one doesn't already have a garden growing.

Throwing seed on the ground won't do it. I made an effort to learn how to grow food and I did it - I grew it from seed and I have seed stored in a way that keeps it viable.

One must provide for a way to keep water coming in and a way to purify it. I have provided for that.

No one can know exactly what will happen, but I prefer to give myself a chance - provide for myself staying alive - it sounds like you aren't giving yourself a chance - that you have given up. Maybe you think federal government FEMA will save you - good luck with that.

[humblegunner]

True that.

[JRandomFreeper]

LOL! For you, maybe. Not for everybody.

Giving up before the fight actually starts is a SURE way to make sure that you fail.

/johnny

[driftdiver]

So what would you do if you don’t have anything to start with?

roll over and die?

[Hawthorn]

>> Without violating OPSEC, lets just say running out of food, water & ammo is no longer our biggest concern in our current location <<

OK, so you’ll be among the five per cent who survive beyond the first year after an EMP attack. Lotsa luck in years two and three!

[Lazamataz]

I love you. I will marry you if you permit.

[Hawthorn]

>> If you research what mobs actually do, inner city mobs stay where they are familiar and rob/kill in that area <<

I’ll wager that 85 to 90% of the US population lives within a couple of days walk from an “inner city” — a/k/a “mob land.” That means the mobs will be able to steal most of the foodstocks in short order.

In other words, perhaps 10 to 15% of the population won’t be affected right away by the mobs. But among those that do survive, the stocks of food and water will run out within a year or two for everybody other than the one or two per cent who are full-fledged preppers and who live in defensible redoubts.

So yeah, maybe one or two per cent of the population will still be alive after three or four years. And my guess is that the Chinese occupation forces will eventually have them under effective control.

[Marcella]

“I love you. I will marry you if you permit.”

Finally, I get a marriage proposal from you. I know you love TheOldLady, too, so what are you going to do about her? :o) (Has Obama approved three way marriage yet?) :o)

[Lazamataz]

Let's be big for a change!

[Jane Long]

That’s the spirit. Not.

You’ll be one of the first whiners begging for food/help.

[TheOldLady]

I am already very happily married, but I do love dear Laz for
a close friend and brilliant political pundit and essayist.

Bigamy is not an option, of course. Besides, he lives very far
away from me and Bryan.

[Lazamataz]

It’s a joke.

I play.

[Lazamataz]

I might gotta stop joking around. Too many people taking me all serious-like.

[Hawthorn]

>> That’s the spirit. Not. <<

Some folks on this thread seem to be wearing rose-colored glasses. Fine. That’s their prerogative.

But as for me, I’d rather be a realist. And what I believe in my heart-of-hearts is that if the U. S. gov’t and private industry both don’t make it a high priority to “harden” our electronics and our power grid against the effects of an EMP bomb and/or a Carrington Event, I don’t see how the USA can survive longer than another 30 or 40 years.

[Marcella]

“I might gotta stop joking around. Too many people taking me all serious-like.”

Oh, Laz, we know you joke and we love you for it. Then, you will turn around and write a serious article. We know the difference. We also know you “hit” on women. :o) Tell you what - if you are prepared for a total breakdown of power, many women will be attracted to your preps. They may “hit” on you at that time.

[Lazamataz]

I have never been so motivated to buy dollar-store duct tape in my life.