Did you have any idea how long a hand full of car batteries will run some LED lights? A long freaking time.
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I don’t know about you, but, I want a lot more than a couple LED lights to keep me going.
If you really want to prepare then live the way you want to live when the SHTF now. Get some solar electric, get a deep well and store lots of food, ammo and booze. You don’t necessarily ever have to fire a shot if it looks like you can and ammo makes great money, same for booze. Money unless it is precious metal may be worthless.
If you don’t have a house with a good basement, that is a poured concrete foundation with the windows so deep that they have to have window wells to have light, then move.
If you live close to a major city it is time to move. Living close to a city has advantages but they are far out weighted by the disadvantages. You don’t want to be close to a lot of other people, it gets hard to protect against thousands of people who want what you have. With a few guns you might dissuade a couple hundred but thousands, you won’t make it.
Food and water are must have, electricity is a nice thing to have. Fuel, forget it. Yes you can store a little fuel but using it is problematic. Once anyone knows you have fuel you will have a hard time keeping it or anything else you have.
The danger from a nuclear blast it two fold, first the initial explosion causes great damage and radiation exposure for up to a few miles away. The bigger problem is long term exposure to nuclear fallout. A brick house offers much better protection than a wooden structure but the the asphalt roof is not wonderful for either one. If you have the ability to wash off your house on a clear day, (reason for well and electricity) then you have a good chance of survival. After a couple weeks you aren’t likely to be re-exposed to new fallout but what is on the ground may not go anywhere for a long time, pray for rain. The rain is great for water but only if you have a deep well.
There is so much to know, perhaps it is just easier to hope the government will come save you, but it won’t.
Primary targets will be:
Minuteman missile silos in the plain states
WSAs at the two Trident bases
WSA at Albuquerque
NNSA facilities at LLNL, Oakridge, TN, Sandina Labs, Los Alamos Labs, KCMO nuke facility at former Richards Gebauer AFB
All active B1/B2/B52 bases (Whiteman, Barkdsale, Dyess, etc)
All former B1/B2/B52 bases (Grand Forks, Ellsworth, McConnel, etc)....
Military airfields with 7000 ft runways
Tinker AFB and associated refueling air bases (Most covered under the 7000 ft rule above)
National Command and Control Facilities: White House, Capitol, Pentagon, Site R, Raven Rock Mtn, Peterson AFB, Cheyenne Mtn complex, Mt Weather, etc)
After that, if the war escalates, they would hit major rail junctions, POL facilities (13 refineries), the 25 super heavy bridges rail/road across the Mississippi, ports, military stores such as Hawthorne Ammo depot and Davis Monathan air restoration facilities, Strategic POL reserves, Financial capital, AT&T building in Dallas and Denver (major commo hubs), etc.
They won't get down to nuking "your city" unless you live in one of the above type targets.
When you see the silos either emptied or hit + the 2 SSBN bases + the WSA area....then you know its ON.
...bomber bases would be hit next and quick.......and then a stall before someone's next move.
FWIW....I'm not to scared and I live next to a 3rd tier target, LRAFB, which is a C-130 base, but has a 7000 ft runway.
Next to be targeted here in Central AR are the Union Pacific rail depot in North Little Rock.....but lots of other nukes will have gone off and give me a heads up to bug out.
Actually, I'm a helluva lot more worried about our soaring crime rate, violence against republicans/Christians/whites, and the next Ice Storm or tornado than I am of a limited or general nuclear war.