Can’t happen Tol, ahhhhh, since it hasn’t yet happened.
Nothing to worry about (brought to you by Obama and Company).
Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on.
The devastation is predicated on the inability for urban dwellers to survive without electricity, etc.
While young children and the elderly would likely be first to perish, esp. in the southern US summers, those of us who are prepared would likely be just fine hunting and gathering to survive. I’ve honed my skills thanks to Boy Scouts and various survival courses I’ve taken, and I’m sure I could survive for at least a year without electricity or any commercial entity.
Anyone that wants to get an idea of life after an EMP attack should read ONE SECOND AFTER by WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN.
And if that isn’t enough to get you heading to COSTCO for some canned food try PATRIOTS by JAMES WESLEY RAWLES or maybe LUCIFER’S HAMMER by Larry Niven and David Pournelle.
“There is renewed alarm about the possibility of an EMP attack – electromagnetic pulse”
Yeah, guess there will now be a premium on old pre-solid state ignition vehicles. I know where there’s a 1954 Willys for sale, think I’ll go buy it before the word gets out. I’m good on the food side though, just planted two topsey turveys and already have one tomato....
...actually, saying 10% survive is on the high side. Back 200 years ago (where we end up) we had horses and horse-drawn plows...along with the survival skills needed for that time. Now we’ll have Nintendo’s that don’t work, and Facebook being down...not a chance.
In actuality, people will simply kill each other without asking questions, in order to get to whatever supplies exist. It will be kind of a grand-scale elimination match.
The best thing that can happen is a limited attack in some part of the country...that snaps the rest of the country to attention, so that Palin uses whatever nukes Obama leaves her with to take out the easy targets of North Korea and Iran. Let’s hope for this outcome, because we don’t want to be around for the other outcome.
I really never gave EMP much thought until reading ONE SECOND AFTER, by William R. Forstchen.
It is a chilling book. Written as a fiction novel, it does ecapsulate very well what it would be like in the months following. Newt Ginrich writes the forward in the book, and he is also seen on the link talking about the book, and it’s warning to us all.
http://www.onesecondafter.com/
Some of the Reviews
“The only thing more terrifying than this masterfully crafted story is the possibility of it actually happening—and not a damn thing being done to protect us.”
“A blood-chilling wake-up call that chaos and death are but a power plug away...Stock up on food, water, medicine, and batteries now. This horror could happen tomorrow.”
But there were fights in stores over bottled water. Some people seemed to lack the ability to one town over to a location that still had potable tap water. I heard people on the radio who seemed to be waiting for government trucks to come down the street, handing out supplies -- you know, like they did in Katrina.
Just boil the water! Sheesh!
A large segment of our society lacks any ability to take care of itself.
Yawn, not this crap again. Yes EMP is an issue but not the doomsday weapon. Ask yourself with all the nuclear testing that went on for years why didn’t stop the world? The Soviets did above ground and high altitude tests, we did above ground tests and not planes crashed etc.
One EMP device wipes out entire world seems a tiny bit over the top. Two or Three over N.Y. would be nasty. I get so tired of these Doomsday post that seem to get a mite bit over the top. Sort of like “Mad man with automatic could take out entire Pentagon and send U.S. defenses back to Bows and Arrows.” Any one with a serious knowledge just how many of these devices it would take to destroy ALL electronics, including the hardened equipment the military has, world wide?
Radiant barrier....just love it. Well, hate it too.
I dunno, I'm confused.
Well anyhow, bring it on Iran. Thinkin their won't be an Iran after such an attack.
This story sounds bad and it could be.It all depends on how much of our infrastructure has been previously hardend against EMP and
how long it would take to repair the damaged computer systems that run everything.
The government has known about EMP for decades,its nothing new so they should have had an ongoing plan to harden those facilities.
Let’s hope they’ve done that.
BTTT
I think the 90% figure is a bit high, but they do have a point that something that disruptive would result in a lot of deaths.
EMP attack would absolutely devastate the production and distribution of food while shutting down much of the nations water supply.
Large scale farming and tractor trailers would probably be unable to function due to the many electronic devises within the engines. The older diesels might still work however.
Most people forget that grocery stores only have about a 24 hour supply of food.
Imagine an event like Katrina but with no rescue teams and no power.
10% survival rate is rather high in my opinion.
This is a teaser story to sell subscriptions.
I’ll worry about that tomorrow.
so why aren’t we doing this to Iran right-friggin-now?
At the very least it will prove a major distraction if they have to deal with 74 million people and no electricity. Should slow things down quite a bit for the bomb makers.