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Posted on 11/05/2013 2:49:26 PM PST by Carbonsteel
Four days before Halloween, on Sunday morning, October 27, 2013, terrorists in Mexico's Michoacan state blacked out the electric grid, leaving some 420,000 powerless and thirteen dead. That same Sunday night, National Geographic aired the docudrama American Blackout. This fictionalized account of a cyber attack on the electric grid depicts some of the horrific consequences of a nationwide blackout lasting 10 days.
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I need to get a hand pump that I can slap on my wellhead. A very shallow water table makes it easy to draw water from.
Good idea to get a hand pump for a shallow well. For deep wells, there are also solar pump systems and/or small diesel generator systems (pretty simple to have along with the regular AC pump with transfer switch if already powered by grid, electrical inlet, outdoor switch and 4-conductor generator cable with generator plug made to plug into inlet, see National Electrical Code).
ping
he was prepared smart, but stoopid operationally.
Prepper ping, I know we had another thread on this show, but worthwhile for more discussion.
If electrical power were down in cities, fuel would be unavailable. Station pumps need electricity. Traffic jams would occur. Traffic from cities to rural areas would be very limited and monitored. Access to parks and other government lands would be very limited and monitored (sanitation, civil order and other issues). Looks like we’d all be trapped and should stock up on books, cards and board games in advance. Me...I think I’ll get a croquet set or build a miniature golf course. ;-)
Heh. You can be the one on the left. I’ll be the one on the right. ;-)
Just had an X3 solar flare today. An X16 and its the Carrington Event again only this time there is a such thing as electronics on Earth. (plugged in affected)
Oh, no. Come to realize it, I am the one on the right! :-(
He was, if you think back over his segment, the makers still did an OK job of showing pitfalls or consequences to remind even the most hard core preppers, to think.
Remember that they weren’t there to show success, but to reach different segments of the TV audience with a personalized prod, for them to get more involved and less complacent.
I’ve been reviewing water systems, and have read a lot of complaints lately about the quality of the berkey filters. I’m leading towards a katadyn, but I’m still not sure...
I grew up in a fairly rural part of urban (rat) state, and moved back. I always felt like I have more in common with rural folk in the midwest, south and west than people in suburbia and urban areas here in New England.
And when I talk with my rural neighbors, most of them hold views many FReepers share.
I think that is the big divide in America.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to Freeper Betis70 for the heads up.
I have a shallow water table as well and am going to get something like the following:
https://www.lehmans.com/p-1384-lehmans-own-galvanized-well-bucket.aspx
Haven’t been able to find out what chemicals / heavy metals the Aquarain filters out. Went with the Aquacera Ceracarb instead.
I watched it today, 4-6 pm. It was intriguing, and so realistic that I could not wait for it to be over.
Hope to God this does not happen in real life, but the next solar flare could change that real quick.
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