[GOPJ]

...EMP would not destroy the entire infrastructure, just the local area...

An EMP would destroy EVERY local area.

Water purification plants would shut down - no water. Most cars would quit running - almost all trucks. Trains would stop and planes would fall out of the sky... The power grid would fail. If your house caught on fire, 911 wouldn't work - the firetruck wouldn't start, water would not flow to the hydrant... But IT would be local.

Every city and town would have the same situation - so there wouldn't be 'help' coming from out of the area... I think half the population would die in the first 20 days... lack of water would take out the first bunch...

[e_castillo]

An aircraft is more like a Faraday cage than most people realize. Think about a lightning strike and how it is disipated.

[goat granny]

Live in the country, have your own well, make it also hand powered, the pumps are usually quite a way down in the earth...lots of venison if you have the equipment...My 16 year old grandson got a deer with a bow and arrow...all my kids hunt, I even have sterile syringes and can buy antibiotics at the tractor supply store. Some people are just too soft and depend on the government to supply their needs...I am old and don't eat much....:O)

When I was a child much of what today is considered necessary, I didn't have growing up and neither did most americans....we lived in a city of over 1,000,000...... a pot belly stove can provide heat, just need to collect the wood...but I do believe city living people will be SOOL in many cases today..