Posted on 05/14/2017 8:30:57 AM PDT by hardspunned
I have been aware of the serious effect an EMP attack would have on our country for some time. I recently read a most terrifying book, One Second After, and am now motivated to better prepare my family for this possibility. My question regards the viability of a 1987 Toyota 4x4 truck with a 22r carbureted engine. I have been told there is a vulnerable component in the non electronic ignition system. My understanding was that old coil, distributor system was safe.
I have the opportunity to purchase this vehicle and would like to be sure that it can be counted on if needed.
Ha, are you ready to defend this vehicle?
So there is not a ton of data on this subject as to automobile affects, specifically. The key here is shielding for critical components. Most folks think of computers and such, and also transmission lines/grids. Large grids and long wires have the most vulnerability because the pulse interacts with them over a large area creating a HUGE power spike. In a car the most likely damaged items will be smaller wires such as micro-circuits (electronics) and longer wires such as coils. While the book you refer takes considerable artistic license with the running of old cars, in theory they would be the easiest to repair and much less dependent on modern electronics, but still vulnerable to EMP. Aside of the electronics: batteries, ignition coil, alternator, starter motor and fuses would all be very subject. Other ignition system components should be OK if you are not too close to the blast. For this to be doable, I would suggest that all component of an ignition system, full set of fuses be stored. Additionally, anything that resembles a coil, alternator, relay, starter motor be stored in a grounded metal box.
Well, if it is true that unshielded electric components get fried, steam vehicles will still work. Jay Leno sure will be getting a lot of use out of his Stanley Steamers, Whites and Dobles.
“how will you get gasoline”
I only need enough to get into town, 40 miles, collect family members and get home. If the effect on autos is nearly as damaging as I’ve been led to believe there will not be much of a post event demand for gas. I suppose if the EMP proof truck was a good idea I would only need to siphon fuel from the thousands of stalled autos littering the roads.
Common sense has nothing to do with it. The grid will disappear. Do research.
Without electricity there will not be gas at the gas station. Ergo, no cars.
Jesus. I am stunned at the level of ignorance already on this thread.
“are you ready to defend this vehicle”
yes
Lol. Your post only validates and underscores my post.
“Common sense has nothing to do with it. The grid will disappear. “
Wow. So much in just two short sentences.
You’re right, those touting EMP are Chicken Little’s without any common sense screaming the sky is falling.
Not just “a city” - a region with a diameter of 1,000 to 1,550 miles. Read about project Starfish and the effect it had on Honolulu 1,500 miles away. Also read about the 1859 Carrington Event and its effect on global telegraphy. Lastly, keep whistling past the graveyard...it definitely keeps the spooks away.
“Apparently WASH DC up to Baltimore is “hardened” “
There is zero proof of that, just one Internet nerd passing it around and other nerds repeating it like it is gospel. It is how these Internet sensations live: One person quoting the next as proof and it becomes a massive circle jerk.
Just get an old 2 stoke dirt bike and keep a 55 gallon can of gasoline in your underground bunker and enough ammunition to keep the zombies at bay.
“To put it mildly, an EMP strike “neutralizes” the flow of electrons in anything that needs a flow of electrons to operate.”
THAT’S what you read about EMP??
EMP is a surge of electrons causing a temporary, read: a few milliseconds, spike in electricity. In no way does it have and ability to stop the flow of electrons.
The dumbing down of America continues, we don’t even know what electricity is anymore.
And who is going to clear the millions of stalled vehicles from the roads? They will be impassable. People will be in survival mode and marshalling the manpower to clear the roads will be impossible.
I have heard that the correct cut-off is a car in the mid-1950s, and that after that it won’t work.
I know Bill, who wrote “One Second After.” I’ve texted him and asked for updates and confirmations of some things, but as Bill often does, he hasn’t responded and will go months without surfacing.
Lots of gasoline in millions of stalled vehicles. At least for a few months until it degrades.
Being the one of the few people in the area driving will just draw gunfire. Where are you going? It’s going to be the same everywhere, chaos and nothing that works.
The operative idea is home survival prep and shelter in place.
The problem with all the doomsdayers is they fantasize scenarios as if it were a scripted Hollywood movie. No one has any idea of the unforeseen in a real apocalypse.
I too read Forschen’s novel. Found it quite sobering.
I don’t see any responses addressing the vulnerability of that particular model truck.
The strength of the EMP would have a bearing on the results obviously. So would your circumstances. Location etc.
Some responses seem overly negative.
Reminds me of the futility of only having a , say, 22 against an organized military.
We might have to improvise and do the best we can with what we have. Some preparation is better than none!
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