I’m glad we live in rural Kentucky. Lots of cattle farms, ponds, springs, etc. Our town would very likely rally around each other. We all know each other anyway in a town this size. 🤦🏼♀️
A lot of people think it’s all over after one, but it’s not like it wipes everyone’s mind and they can’t remember how to rebuild and swap out parts that have been destroyed.
We have an old Chevy with a carb and mechanical fuel pump. The weak link is the HEI distributor, so I've got a spare one wrapped tight and sealed in a metal tin I burried in a plastic bucket. Will it still be good? I hope I never have to find out.
Tough to know for certain. We have very limited data on EMP's. The underground nuclear testing shielded the EMP, so those tests were not helpful in determining the strength and magnitude. Most of our qualitative data came from the A bomb tests in the bikini atolls. The EMP blew out street lamps in Hawaii 500 miles away. We dont know how the effect will be over land vice conductive seawater. It could be far worse over land. Burying your distributor (electronic ignition) in a metal container will help keep the induced electric field from getting to the solid state electronics. These are more resistant to electrostatics discharge than digital electronics, but honestly, we really dont have hard data to know if shielding will help. I can say that you are protecting it as best you can, burying it at least gives you protection to dissipate the charge as quickly as possible.
I learned a bit. A satellite (like N Korea's) can cause an electric surge can be localized or can cover complete US. Anything electrical would be wiped out. So think about no phone, tv, computer, lights, cooking, water, heat/AC, transportation, fridge/freezer, washer/dryer, planes fall from the sky, boats stranded at sea.....nothing works. Where might you and your family be when this happens. And would take several years to restore as each transformer is blown and parts made in China. It would then be living like pioneers, carrying buckets of water, cooking over a fire, no refrigerated foods so hunt, fish and forage.
Can also occur from a solar EMP like a sun flare.
If I were you I'd learn canning instead of worrying about crispy tenders.
I pressure can everything esp chix soup (low salt, water content), ground meat, bacon, anything. Squeeze the last bits of meat, marrow and flavor from a rotisserie chix carcass. I use the big Presto canner. Canners were in short supply last year, had to wait a long time to get my 2nd one.
As stated, One Second After tells you exactly what will happen and what the government projects. I've read it at least 10 times. Great read and very informative.
It isn't very funny stuff. Millions would die, probably you and everybody you care about.
They have made us dependent on fuel/energy because most all of our food comes from out west. With no power, fuel can't be pumped. Without the internet, it is very hard to connect those with supply to where people need it. If turning on the faucet didn't produce any water, and you couldn't buy any water, how long can you last?
I think the human body can last about 3 days without water. How much do you have? If you have a lot, what if thugs busted in your door and took it from you?
No one really knows what would happen if there was a large-scale EMP attack on this country because it's never been done (yes, I know about Starfish Prime- that doesn't count). If you detonate a nuke in low orbit, it'll create an EMP due to interfering with Earth's magnetic field, but the size and potency depends on many factor such as the yield of the nuke, its altitude at detonation, your distance from the blast, etc. It would be hard to predict what would happen but it could be very bad or not-so-bad.
A lot of what you'll see and read is based on the worst-case scenario: permanent loss of power due to damaged power plants/transmission lines that could take months or years to repair. Once power is gone, so is fuel, sewage, food, and just about everything else. Anything you think you witnessed during a bad hurricane or earthquake will pale by comparison.
As for who has that kind of capability, the answer is anyone with a space program or anyone who could pay to access one.
emp is localized over a general region (300-600 miles radius) fires, no electronics
cmp (level 7 +) severe impact on sun facing earth (half the world) fires etc
cmp (level 9+) dark ages. the means of production is destroyed (global). fires etc..
cmp (12+ [micro nova]). read revelation chapter 16. put a fork in it.
They vary in size and effect, I know that much. Probably a big one close by would make you into a crispy tendie, but as it is a sudden burst of electromagnetic energy, you would more likely notice glitches in electronics. And in this electrified world that easily becomes a BFD.
Nukes going off a mile or two above the surface of the planet will generate an emp.
I wouldn’t worry about it. If the nukes start popping, there isn’t going to be much left to fight over and if you did want to fight over it, you will be doing it with a lethal exposure to radiation.
Yeah well I have an underground bunker and didn’t get irradiated!
Yeah, congrats. The fall out will ensure that everything is toxic and you can fight over the last can of speghettios as your teeth and hair fall out.
Virtually no radioactive fall out from a high altitude burst. The initial release of high velocity neutrons will kill all living creatures within the radius of effect, water is the decelerator of high energy neutrons. This is how the neutrons kill living creatures, the energy is imparted by colliding with the hydrogen atoms in H2O and losing half the energy of the neutrons inside the living creatures every time it strikes another hydrogen atom, it imparts half its velocity/energy. Lots of heat, very bad for living creatures this is how the primary coolant in a reactor vessel removes heat from the reactor vessel and carries it to the steam generator. Underground is also good for shielding and will protect occupants depending on depth. The neutrons will dissipate nearly instantly after the blast, think milliseconds. This is non-ionizing radiation, so radiation poisoning is not a large concern. Being at the bottom of a pool or lake/pond will give sufficient protection depending on the proximity to the blast. By the time you come back up for air, the threat will have passed, except for the shockwave, but you will probably miss that too while underwater. If the blast is too close, you'll boil and get cooked. The alpha's and beta's will be minimal, so long term exposure isn't much of a concern. This type of weapon detonation is for the EMP burst and depopulation while leaving the infrastructure in place for rapid repopulation, theoretically by enemy personnel.
Electro Magnetjc Pulse is a very high current discharge over a very short period of time, sending a RF pulse that essentially will burn out most ICs within a certain radius
Because of the current, the major production of a meaningful pulse would be a high altitude nuclear bomb. The pulse would radiate some number of miles wiping out all electronics with an IC. Planes, cars, computers, cell phones etc
Smaller ones would have a shorter range, but would be a terror based weapon. Such as a plane coming in for landing or takeoff Or near a hospital or a high Popp area.
Older cars with points or diesel tractors should do just fine. The target is ICs
An EMP is nature's way of putting everyone on a Paleo Diet.
This is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Thanks fren
Load up on Sweet Baby Rays. Libcucks on the Menu Boys!
Go binge watch Jericho, and then ponder on how your area would actually respond.
Prioritize things in the order they will kill you if you don't have them. (TP isn't the first concern)
A pond, a pressure canner and meat on the hoof will go a long way in making you feel better about your chances.
I enjoyed that show. I think it did a good job of showing what good leadership and sense of community would do to survive a catastrophe.
Watching that was instrumental in our decision to move across the country to a small rural town, no joke.
Edit- No regrets either. If anyone is thinking about it, can recommend.
Also read the novel One Second After.
And read at least the public version the EMP commission report.
Scary stuff. Bottom line is estimated death rate is 90% within 1 year.
Forstchen?
How are the other two? Should I just get the trilogy? I need a new book for sure.
I’m glad we live in rural Kentucky. Lots of cattle farms, ponds, springs, etc. Our town would very likely rally around each other. We all know each other anyway in a town this size. 🤦🏼♀️
A lot of people think it’s all over after one, but it’s not like it wipes everyone’s mind and they can’t remember how to rebuild and swap out parts that have been destroyed.
We have an old Chevy with a carb and mechanical fuel pump. The weak link is the HEI distributor, so I've got a spare one wrapped tight and sealed in a metal tin I burried in a plastic bucket. Will it still be good? I hope I never have to find out.
Tough to know for certain. We have very limited data on EMP's. The underground nuclear testing shielded the EMP, so those tests were not helpful in determining the strength and magnitude. Most of our qualitative data came from the A bomb tests in the bikini atolls. The EMP blew out street lamps in Hawaii 500 miles away. We dont know how the effect will be over land vice conductive seawater. It could be far worse over land. Burying your distributor (electronic ignition) in a metal container will help keep the induced electric field from getting to the solid state electronics. These are more resistant to electrostatics discharge than digital electronics, but honestly, we really dont have hard data to know if shielding will help. I can say that you are protecting it as best you can, burying it at least gives you protection to dissipate the charge as quickly as possible.
I learned a bit. A satellite (like N Korea's) can cause an electric surge can be localized or can cover complete US. Anything electrical would be wiped out. So think about no phone, tv, computer, lights, cooking, water, heat/AC, transportation, fridge/freezer, washer/dryer, planes fall from the sky, boats stranded at sea.....nothing works. Where might you and your family be when this happens. And would take several years to restore as each transformer is blown and parts made in China. It would then be living like pioneers, carrying buckets of water, cooking over a fire, no refrigerated foods so hunt, fish and forage.
Can also occur from a solar EMP like a sun flare.
If I were you I'd learn canning instead of worrying about crispy tenders.
I'll never buy canned chicken from the store again. Home canned dark meat is the BEST! We've have this one for about ten years. Awesome unit, love it!
https://www.allamericancanner.com/All-American-21-Quart-Pressure-Canner.htm
I pressure can everything esp chix soup (low salt, water content), ground meat, bacon, anything. Squeeze the last bits of meat, marrow and flavor from a rotisserie chix carcass. I use the big Presto canner. Canners were in short supply last year, had to wait a long time to get my 2nd one.
I could easily make crisp golden trendies after an emp
A propane fryer would work just fine. If I lost refrigeration due to the emp, I might be making a bunch of them though
faraday cage....
As stated, One Second After tells you exactly what will happen and what the government projects. I've read it at least 10 times. Great read and very informative.
It isn't very funny stuff. Millions would die, probably you and everybody you care about.
They have made us dependent on fuel/energy because most all of our food comes from out west. With no power, fuel can't be pumped. Without the internet, it is very hard to connect those with supply to where people need it. If turning on the faucet didn't produce any water, and you couldn't buy any water, how long can you last?
I think the human body can last about 3 days without water. How much do you have? If you have a lot, what if thugs busted in your door and took it from you?
This is no joke.
No one really knows what would happen if there was a large-scale EMP attack on this country because it's never been done (yes, I know about Starfish Prime- that doesn't count). If you detonate a nuke in low orbit, it'll create an EMP due to interfering with Earth's magnetic field, but the size and potency depends on many factor such as the yield of the nuke, its altitude at detonation, your distance from the blast, etc. It would be hard to predict what would happen but it could be very bad or not-so-bad.
A lot of what you'll see and read is based on the worst-case scenario: permanent loss of power due to damaged power plants/transmission lines that could take months or years to repair. Once power is gone, so is fuel, sewage, food, and just about everything else. Anything you think you witnessed during a bad hurricane or earthquake will pale by comparison.
As for who has that kind of capability, the answer is anyone with a space program or anyone who could pay to access one.
man made = emp. solar made = cme.
emp is localized over a general region (300-600 miles radius) fires, no electronics cmp (level 7 +) severe impact on sun facing earth (half the world) fires etc cmp (level 9+) dark ages. the means of production is destroyed (global). fires etc.. cmp (12+ [micro nova]). read revelation chapter 16. put a fork in it.
They vary in size and effect, I know that much. Probably a big one close by would make you into a crispy tendie, but as it is a sudden burst of electromagnetic energy, you would more likely notice glitches in electronics. And in this electrified world that easily becomes a BFD.
Nukes going off a mile or two above the surface of the planet will generate an emp.
I wouldn’t worry about it. If the nukes start popping, there isn’t going to be much left to fight over and if you did want to fight over it, you will be doing it with a lethal exposure to radiation.
Yeah well I have an underground bunker and didn’t get irradiated!
Yeah, congrats. The fall out will ensure that everything is toxic and you can fight over the last can of speghettios as your teeth and hair fall out.
Virtually no radioactive fall out from a high altitude burst. The initial release of high velocity neutrons will kill all living creatures within the radius of effect, water is the decelerator of high energy neutrons. This is how the neutrons kill living creatures, the energy is imparted by colliding with the hydrogen atoms in H2O and losing half the energy of the neutrons inside the living creatures every time it strikes another hydrogen atom, it imparts half its velocity/energy. Lots of heat, very bad for living creatures this is how the primary coolant in a reactor vessel removes heat from the reactor vessel and carries it to the steam generator. Underground is also good for shielding and will protect occupants depending on depth. The neutrons will dissipate nearly instantly after the blast, think milliseconds. This is non-ionizing radiation, so radiation poisoning is not a large concern. Being at the bottom of a pool or lake/pond will give sufficient protection depending on the proximity to the blast. By the time you come back up for air, the threat will have passed, except for the shockwave, but you will probably miss that too while underwater. If the blast is too close, you'll boil and get cooked. The alpha's and beta's will be minimal, so long term exposure isn't much of a concern. This type of weapon detonation is for the EMP burst and depopulation while leaving the infrastructure in place for rapid repopulation, theoretically by enemy personnel.
Electro Magnetjc Pulse is a very high current discharge over a very short period of time, sending a RF pulse that essentially will burn out most ICs within a certain radius
Because of the current, the major production of a meaningful pulse would be a high altitude nuclear bomb. The pulse would radiate some number of miles wiping out all electronics with an IC. Planes, cars, computers, cell phones etc
Smaller ones would have a shorter range, but would be a terror based weapon. Such as a plane coming in for landing or takeoff Or near a hospital or a high Popp area.
Older cars with points or diesel tractors should do just fine. The target is ICs
Boeing has a cruise missile EMP that can selectively target the enemy with discrete beams, OFF/ON as it flies