[GOP_Party_Animal]

Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on.

[cripplecreek]

I think you would see a pretty lopsided survival rate. Well under 50% in the city opposed to upwards of 70% in rural America.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Yes, 90% dead, but not in 12 months, I think in 6 months.

EMP fries electrical systems. That means, no transportation, no frozen food storage, no electricity. No production or transport of food. No municipal water service. No internet. No telephone service. No communications to coordinate recovery. No medicine. How long do you think people will survive?

[Kozak]

Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on.

NOTHING works. No power, no communications, no cars, trucks, trains, planes, medical care, most farm equipment. Food in the midwest can't be harvested. If it was no way to move it to the rest of the country just one example. The US would be immediately catapulted into the 19th century, without the skills and tools to survive. In 1900 there were 76 million people in America, with 90% of them living on farms. The death toll would be horrendous.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on."

At first it seems a bit unreal but think through the scenario if electricity cannot be restored within a month or two.

Rural areas would be better off that is until the people in the Urban areas started flooding in escaping the cities.

Rioting, Hoarding, looting would be rampant. Gasoline would be hard to come by (Pumps don't work without electricity) Hospitals would be mini disaster areas without electricity. There is no way they all have emergency generators to meet the needs of all the electrical systems. Imagine just losing the electrical monitors that send alarms to the nurses. You would lose lots more people just tot he fact that alarms wouldn't go off to alert nurses about needed emergency aide.

Grocery stiores would not be able to keep meat, or dairy, or produce for long. Our whole supply and demand system would go completely out of whack. Factories could not can food or package it. Yeah eventually stuff could be reverted to hand labor but it would take months.

So unless the effects of the EMP could be fixed in a few weeks I venture that lots of people in the USA would be starving inside of 6-7 weeks! (Supposedly there is only one month of food on average available in the USA at any given time.)

[x_plus_one]

50%

[Lazamataz]

Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on.

Actually, worse. 99.999999999999% of Americans will die.

It means that only one person will remain, and even he will be 99.99% dead.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on."

Think Katrina all over with any external support disabled indefinitely.

[ChocChipCookie]

The ability to grow massive amounts of food would be completely destroyed. Since we can only survive three weeks or so without food, millions would starve to death. Even people who are prepared with food storage would find themselves in deep trouble after a few months.

[bgill]

90% of Americans dead? Come on.

Let one big crisis happen and all the other wackos will come out of their holes to cause more trouble. Monkey see, monkey do. That UT Austin prof, Pianki, teaches his students (many muslim) that 90% of the human race needs to be killed off and a good way would be through eboli.

[Cheburashka]

Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on.

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When fuel production stops, food distribution collapses. Your average grocery store has a about a three day supply. After the store is empty, it's whatever you have in your house, plus whatever you can steal, less whatever is stolen from you. How long before most starve?

90% of Americans live in big cities. Americans who live in rural areas might have a chance, if they can fight off (literally) the refugees from the big cities.

You think I can't be right? I hope I'm not right, and I hope we never find out whether I'm right.

[wku man]

Read One Second After...'nuff said.

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