That means, no food or fuel delivery to cities. No clean water, no medicine, no hospitals.
Are you calling BS on the ability of an EMP to destroy the grid or the effects of destroying the grid?
Would the damage last that long? I understand how serious the “domino effect” of everything going down, especially in big cities, but what time frame would be needed to repair such an outage?
Like me, probably BS on the blanket statement that you refined.
Read the book discussed in this wiki article. There is also a sequel (like One Year After). Accurately depicts what an EMP would do to us. All of the ramifications. Our government has done little to harden the grid or guard against EMP attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After
The 90% estimates are based on the power grid going down completely for a year.
That means, no food or fuel delivery to cities. No clean water, no medicine, no hospitals.
Are you calling BS on the ability of an EMP to destroy the grid or the effects of destroying the grid?
However IMHO, the greatest threat would come from
1. breakdown in society—no police, etc. to maintain law and order. Many have no more than a few days worth of food—they will not be shy about trying to feed themselves, keep warm, etc.
2. Disease from eating tainted food, lack of sanitation options, and lack of hospitals.