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.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
It is interesting that when Chernobyl happened, it exposed the commander to hundreds if not thousands of times the average LD50.
He apparently had some aches and pains, but lived until he was like 92 or something.
But these are not the rule - these are the exceptions!
Thanks for the vid, I’m watching it now.
When I was in the Army, they told us our diesel vehicles would run on diesel, gasoline, rubbing alcohol, transmission fluid, perfume, cologne, and just about anything else that would burn. Some of them would ruin your engine in 10, 20 or 30 miles, but could help you get out of a lethal situation.
So you have to know what works, what won't work, and what will ruin your particular diesel engine!
“A link that appears to be a good read about EMP myths and how the Inverse-Square law applies or doesn’t. “EMP Myths
by Jerry Emanuelson, B.S.E.E.”
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/EMP-myths.html";
This link you posted corresponds to the information I got from a man who worked all his life with our defense department on the effects of an EMP and HEMP in order to harden our military defense systems, which they did. Everyone should read at that link to understand the truth of what will happen in both instances.
Of course there is such a thing as EMP, but it would take thousands of well positioned warheads to do much.
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“...found a wind-up clock, no electronic parts, on Amazon for around $19.”
Thinking about power being out for a long time and not wanting to use up batteries for a clock, I bought a wind-up expensive Sternreiter metal alarm clock with metal insides - NO plastic parts to break. It will be working for the rest of my life and my grandchildren’s lives and their children’s lives.
Someone said to me if power went out forever, they wouldn’t care what time it is. That is unhealthy thinking as time is part of our lives and our bodies are geared to time. To keep “normal” going in that situation, we need to know time.
8 to 10 miles per gallon?
bflr
You’d be surprised...about 14 in town and 20 on the highway cruising at 70 pmh and drafting semi’s...lol...
pfl
I told a co-worker that I wanted a mechanical windup watch. One day, he walked in with an old watch - still in good condition, that he found in his FIL’s things (FIL long deceased, of course). His wife gave him permission to give it to me. I’m a woman, so I don’t wear it much, but it won’t matter one whit in times of emergency, whether it’s “gender appropriate” or not.
Oh, I looked online and did find one at Vermont Country Store:
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store/jump/productDetail/Men&aposs/Accessories/Watches_&_Wallets/Men&aposs_Wind-Up_Watch/45809
That’s a really good reference document, especially the part that CLEARLY explains the three pulse types.
E3 pulses from a CME have the power to kill the grid, but since we have plenty of warnings of their arrival, the utilities CAN react and protect.
Local distribution lines might take hard hits as would industry and residences
Telecom, electrical and rail systems would survive a CME if they act in time.
Problem is that millions of people’s homes and small businesses would not.
Thanks for your post and the link.
I would be so screwed.
Copper is useless in an H field. That’s what the silver plated stainless mesh does.
I still have my Yogi Bear watch. Works like a champ as his arms point all around the dial.
I have a $4 watch from Wallyworld that is five years old. Takes all the abuse I can give including thousands of shock loads. Changed the battery once. Yes it is crystal based. Learn to tell time from the sky. A watch in a SHTF scenario is just something else to manage.
It will be at my enclave.
My father-in-law is a watchmaker with over 60 years experience.
"Watches I Have Known" on Amazon
A great book for history buffs.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.
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