Posted on 05/07/2015 4:52:56 PM PDT by Kartographer
Ben, I’m doing this article for you as I promised, and I hope it will help you (and others) to make those decisions in the critical moments and days following an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) event. Although I had plenty of science courses in college, I am not a scientist. Certainly someone with a scientific background will comment on this article. Let me state this: Scientists, I welcome all comments, positive or negative, but please make them proactive. These articles are forums where the writers are “emcees” that introduce topics for discussion and present some salient points. You guys and gals are the ones who pick up the topics and run the football in for the TD.
We need to be “SME’s” as we called them in the Army: Subject Matter Experts. One of my personal goals for SHTF is not just to draw a large readership base; it is to help readers develop themselves and also develop one another. Let the site become an ORP (objective rally point) where everyone can plan, exchange ideas, and attain better levels of awareness and preparation for the times to come. In this light, there is a lot of knowledge out there awaiting use. Take the knowledge you amass, step up to the plate, and take the swing: do the best you can with what you have. And if it isn’t perfect, so what? You give it your best shot and then adjust fire from there.
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Gasoline will be quickly siphoned out of abandoned vehicles in a serious SHTF scenario. However, transmission fluid in those abandoned cars and trucks will be around for a long time and can be used in a pinch as fuel in diesel vehicles. Better be an older one, though, since a modern diesel with modern electronics will be just as useless as any modern vehicle (at least in theory).
Just kidding. Stay prepared.
My tinfoil hat stays on my head.
Thank you for that link.
He means procure one now before anything happens.
I haven’t looked for a watch but found a wind-up clock, no electronic parts, on Amazon for around $19.
If your gun safe has an electronic keypad, you might not be able to open it. One gun safe manufacturer couldn’t give a definite answer as to whether or not an EMP would affect the locks on his safe.
Times are hard and people are selling their treasures.
Of course he does but it still struck me as humorous.
Stock up on fuel stabilizer. If, as predicted, many, or most, vehicles will be disabled, there will be a lot of fuel available in a lot of tanks. You’ll need containers and the stabilizer for longer term storage.
If the fallout does not kill animals that spend all of their time around Chernobyl eating the things that grow there like wolves are not killed I am pretty sure that humans will do fine.
The area around Chernobyl is now basically a thriving wild life sanctuary. It is possible to get hunting permits and guided tours for the area.
I have read article that state that during an EMP ground currents can be created that will burn out your electronics.
I hope you know that all inductive electronics will be burned through by an EMP. That means ignition coils on vehicles.
I would think that any group that launches a successful EMP attack would follow it up a few days later, then a few weeks later to get any electronic systems that were repaired / pulled from EMP proof storage.
At least some, and perhaps most have a backup key lock. All of those I have checked also have standard keys.
No electronics on my safe.
The NRC is starting to notice EMP issues. I think we can harden fairly easily against likely EMP and I suspect we will be required to do so soon. Some of our buildings have full steel liners and our concrete has more rebar in it than you can shake a stick at. I am more concerned about meter and relaying and control cabinets. Though we can run things manually.
Sounds pretty good. An individual claiming to be an EE posted some information that a large metal trash can with a tightly sealed lid lined with a plastic trash bag lined with aluminum foil lined with another trash bag would provide effective protection. I would ground it. This is inexpensive and could be large enough to hold a bunch of stuff one might want to protect. Not on subject but plastic trash cans filled with water will protect against radiation, gamma, beta, and neutron. Two feet of water will reduce gamma dose by a factor of ten. And provide drinking water when shielding is no longer needed.
Atmospheric pressure is 14.69 psia. This equates to a best of about 28 feet of suction lift with water. Would be less for gasoline but a good NON-Sparking hand pump would do the job, IMHO.
Good tip. I didn’t know that.
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