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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I have a pressure canner and have been pressure canning soup stock for years.
Whenever we have Thanksgiving dinner I cook down the turkey carcass and make soup out of it. I can only the broth and meat and leave the veggies out until I actually make the soup.
I don’t like the way the veggies come out when canned but also know how to do that and would do it for survival if necessary. Canned veggies are better than no veggies.
So I have quite the stock of canned turkey, beef, and chicken soup started.
I do grow my own veggies but considering what NY summers are like and my ability to have only so much garden space, I am grateful we don’t have to depend on that for survival.
I also have a grain mill and wheat berries so can make homemade bread if need be.
Thank you
Hellary and the Kenyan and their minions are more evil than Putin.
I’m assuming you’re joking.
Home Depot would be sold out of generators by the time you got there. Even if there was one still on the shelf, you couldn’t pay for it if you didn’t have cash as the credit card machine would be down. You’d also likely be shot or stabbed before you got the cash register. The gas pumps wouldn’t be working so you just wasted however many gallons of gas on nothing. The trip home would take hours with the traffic at a stand still.
I wouldn’t hold my breath on any aid getting out here. The pantry and manual can opener would get us through the initial phase and we’re on a river with fish. Do need to make another solar oven as the old one is falling apart. Have printed out survival skills and projects.
Probably need to stock up on bbq sauce to cut the foul taste of unsuccessful , bwahahaha. As Sipsy says, “The secret is in the sauce.”
Better have water for those seeds along with soil amendments and insecticide and fungicide. A garden needs fencing and ammo to keep animals and humans out. Pre-learn foraging.
I have Civil War family letters about their horses and livestock being taken by the troops and they were left with nothing.
I don’t drink or smoke so you’d need something better to barter.
Of course I’m kidding. It’s my way of trying to wake up people.
I’m in Houston and a bit before the legendary Hurricane Rita evacuation, I had big maps of the city and county on my kitchen table and was plotting how to get out of the city, while staying off the freeways. My wife says something like: “Why do all this, we’ll just take I-10 to I-45 and be out of here?”. She was clueless as to what happens when you try to evacuate a city of 4 million people with a total of 4 usable freeway lanes. In the end, we bypassed the worst of it and made it to Ft. Worth in 8 hours...others, not so fortunate.
The EBT crowd usually doesn’t believe in cooking so all they’ll have are a couple of old McD’s chicken nuggets on the coffee table. They’ll be armed to the teeth with illegal guns and knives and baseball bats as they’re bashing their way into your house.
How much ammo do you reckon the average prepper has at home? Of course, D’montrey and LaChicarones won’t have thought that far ahead.
Hmm, just thought of something. If the demonrats are in charge or if they have any say, they’ll make the stores accept EBT cards if there’s an account number on them (hey, I don’t know what’s on the cards as I don’t rely on the kindness of strangers) claiming the government will make payment. Anyone without an EBT card will have to use cash or gold.
Ooh, can you imagine today’s home owner associations allowing for gardens, farm animals or even allowing white drapes to be taken down? No way. Not even in an emergency situation.
The US government continues to tell farmers what they can and can not grow through allotments.
Always eat the ice cream first!
Black out drapes.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=black+out+drapes
Good show and demonstration of fore-thought and advanced planning.
Just be aware of whatever is going on upstream will affect the quality and health of the fishing resource.
The fact that you have printed out skills and projects, and not relying on electrons
probably puts you far ahead of most other preppers who have not yet converted information into documents.
I think that such inaction is a residual effect of 'Normalcy Bias' !
If you can keep a schedule of when resources were purchased, along with approximate expiration dates,
the list itself will help keep your preps up to date.
Consider the list as a reminder, or a 'brain tickler' to rotate or check out your preps.
Some tools that I had left in plastic blister packs for longevity and easy identification apparently were sealed with moisture inside the packs,
and some of the tools are rusted beyond use.
This would not have happened if I had regularly checked their condition, or rotated - so I need my own "Tickler" list.
Such a 'tickler' list is almost mandatory when it comes to canned goods that are in 'long term storage'.
Yeah, I know about water contamination and flooding. About 40 years ago, our know it all government decided they needed to get rid of the “bad” fish so the good fish could flourish. They drained the river about 30 feet and came in with helicopters dumping poison. As if the poison knew the difference between the good and bad fish so it ruined the fishing for many years. No thought to the PEOPLE! Everyone had drinking well water that came from the poisoned water so we all got deathly sick. We afraid of our well so hauled in some from upstream and off the water but we still got sick. Thought we were going to die with all the throwing up.
Flooding. Of course, now days we have to worry about morons operating the dams from cubicles a hundred miles away and terrorists.
Figured you were kidding. Printed hand held maps are must haves. I made sure kiddos had a box of maps in their vehicles. Of course, I’m old fashioned and overprotective and geez, like, uh, they have their cells and can take I-35, so duuuuh!
What is a spring house. Is that a fancy word for outhouse, or is it a large storage shed?
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