Posted on 07/14/2019 4:38:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
re: “A great book on the subject, “One Second After”, gives a terrifying account of what WOULD happen. It’s a real possibility and it’s a really BAD possibility.”
EMP is in the same category as Global Warming; theorized, never tested (the street light thing in Hawaii is not conclusive of much.)
For a more reasonable, practical point of view see the work by Mario Rabinowitz of EPRI: “EMP and the Electric Power Grid”
https://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0307/0307127.pdf
Another view differing from the usual doomers is Jack Steinberger, Nobel prize-winning physicist who analyzes the effects here:
“The electro-magnetic pulse produced by a nuclear bomb explosion high above the atmosphere. Jack Steinberger. September 2006.”
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/272552-the-electro-magnetic-pulse-produced-by-a-nuclear.html
We reworked our supplies a few years ago. If you open expired canned food it does not look appetizing. It likely won’t kill you but it will not be pleasant to eat. I tasted some green beans and they were gross.
We transitioned to freeze dried, dehydrated and staples in sealed mylar stored in 5 gallon buckets. We got rid of everything else. We keep 3 of the blue plastic 55 gallon containers filled in our garage. Once per year we change the water out. We filter all tap water through a Big Berkey water filter. We keep 5 propane tanks filled for our gas grill.
But the whereabouts of our trillion bucks is not funny; I’d like to open an investigation into the accounting, hire one of those firms that “the little people” use for SOX Compliance.
“Only if you say so”
Hey we just decided we are survivors. Truthfully we aren’t that concerned about everyone else beyond friends and family. If the grid goes down for a year it will take care of the illegal immigration problem, the muslim refugee problem and the left wing loon problem.
re: “If the grid goes down for a year “
This is the “calculus” that’s always screwed up; what do you think happens when an EMP strikes - does it take out ALL the lineman and plant operators and engineers too?
NO!
This is where we depart, the ‘public’ and newspaper writers assume a static, non-dynamic system, like the power system just ‘dropped down from the heavens’ one day and there is was ... whereas in REALITY there are companies that specialize in utility line construction and line crews paid by the utilities that maintain the system in normal day to day outages that occur in a big system.
Take a look at the ONCOR system in N. Texas - about 1200 customers w/o power right now, and we haven’t had a storm in 3 or four days now, this is just ‘outages’ due to car accidents, animals/squirrels etc getting tangled up in distribution lines, tree contact (from seasonal growth that has not been trimmed) and the like:
https://stormcenter.oncor.com/external/default.html
In our area, the utility has cut off the gas to areas where flooding is expected (low lying area near salt water inlet). I’ve only seen it happen once in maybe 30 years but it has happened and is part of the gas utility’s emergency plans.
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