Posted on 03/17/2018 2:50:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The warning comes weeks after the Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said Russia had been spying on the UK’s energy infrastructure and could cause “thousands and thousands and thousands” of deaths if it crippled the power supply.
America this week blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the US power grid.
Energy and security experts say a cyber attack is one of a number of so-called “black sky hazards” that have the potential to knock out power for days, weeks or even longer across large parts of a country, or even continent.
As well as a cyber attack, other black sky risks include extreme weather, an electromagnetic pulse caused by a nuclear detonation in the atmosphere and terrorist attacks on key substations or transformers.
One of the most destructive risks would be a powerful solar storm. A previous storm in 1859, now known as the Carrington Event, caused so much geomagnetic disruption that telegraph operators reported sparks bursting out of their machines. Such a storm today could cause havoc to electrical systems.
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, a former chair of the Commons defence committee who now advises the Electric Infrastructure Security Council, said modern life had complete reliance on electricity.
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Having been caught up in hurricane Irma on the Florida mainland, service stations were selling gasoline at $5.00 per gallon,
and limiting each car to 5 gallons (or another 100 miles).
Meanwhile the entire State population were being forced to keep going north; gasoline was expensive,
and the population that was in hotels were ordered to vacate as the storm continued nothward.
Cash was king, ..and don't bother to ask for a receipt; better to have lower denomination currency.
Sanctuary housing wasn't until you reached Georgia, Alabama, or South Carolina.
Thanks for the prepper ping. I think with Spring almost here we will see blankets going on sale very soon. I will be looking to stock up.
Seeds? I'm a bit low on those. Otherwise, I'm as ready as I can be. I hope it doesn't happen, but hope is not a strategy.
Don't forget to "seasonally adjust" any bug-out bag.
Get necessary gear while on seasonal clearance, at reduced prices.
Evaluate where you are in terms of equipment and supplies, and in the "Off Season" fill in any voids that you find.
Sooner would be better than later. Here too.
At this point, I’m more afraid of people here, mostly all levels of government.
Anyone with a brain will realize that cyber attacks from the ChiComs and Norks is much more worrisome
That's a lot of work. I'm just going to order mine online and have UPS bring it to my door. Maybe some steaks for the grill too. You pay extra for two-day delivery but nothing is too good for me in a civilization-shattering apocalypse.
Cold weather gear does get discounted this time of year.
I also like to rotate my gasoline tanks in the Spring and Fall.
I only have three 30 gallon drums but that could get us well out of town or run my 3500W generator for a few hours a day for over a month.
Anyone with a brain will realize that cyber attacks from the ChiComs and Norks is much more worrisome
And how being arrested for hording and having everything you had put up taken away was such fun!
How you raised a pig on garden scraps and the government took half.
How people got shot for daring to tell the government that the land they wanted sown with wheat was too hilly and rocky for anything but raising animals.
How you had to get permission to make cheese from the spoiled milk from your own cows.
World War II did not make them more self reliant, it made them turn to the government for everything.
My Texas country require an AC powered Arobic waste water system.
Guess I will have to poop on the ground like the rest of the live stock.
My suggestion is that you get both hybrid seeds and heirloom seeds.
The Hybrids will be what you can find in the grocery store and are the type you are used to purchasing. Hybridized for food production and what you are used to consuming.
The Heirlooms are international seeds handed down for generations for proven reliability, and disease and blight resistance.
Even if you don't plant the seeds, they can be used for barter: although if you start heirloom plants from seed, they are considered more valuable.
Or stop over at the FReeper gardening thread that is online here,
for information, moderated by "greeneyes" most every Friday early evening :
https://freerepublic.com/tag/gardening/index?tab=articles
I an betting on half pint bottles of cheap burbon and loose leaf tobacco to be the new gold standard.
If they haven't figured out at least that then, yeah, they could be in trouble.
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Islam is the essence of Satan’s “Great Tribulation.”
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Flying lead is the standard that affirms the gold standard.
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Waste of time talking about the Carrington Event on FR. Large numbers don’t believe it happen and more don’t believe it can happen again. And there is a core that claim there is no such thing as EMP natural or man made.
“then stop for gas on the way home”
You’d be better off stopping for beer, a lot of it.
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