“But I don’t think Denver and Ohio would be plunged into the 1800’s if a EMP detonated 250 miles above Kansas. “
Not by the EMP, by the resulting breakdown in society.
Exactly, just look at what happened in NYC in 1977, in just minutes after the blackout.
But if Denver and Ohio aren’t effected by the EMP there isn’t going to be a breakdown in society. You know how much people west of the Mississippi were effected by that big north eastern black out? We weren’t. It was a curiosity on the news, anybody that had relatives in the area maybe spent a few minutes worrying, other than that life went on. If Kansas loses its electronic brain that’s not going to effect much of the rest of the country in any way.
I can't argue that. People can be pretty unpredictable, especially in large population centers where fear begets fear and there are mob tendencies.
I live in the suburbs and could feed the family with rabits and canadian geese for a while anyway. :o) Any neighbor who complains about hunting at the retention pond doesn't get any of the take.