What does Boehner have to do with it?
Posted on 09/10/2014 2:18:35 PM PDT by Kartographer
Alan Boyle
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Given the interconnectedness of the electrical grid I believe this may have the potential to cause more widespread problems.
You don't, you put the kitten next to your ear and its purring relaxes you and takes your mind off the apparent imminent end of the earth............
Make it quick, I need to weasel out of doing my TPS reports...
So what sort of impact do we expect from this size flare? How soon will we know if there is a corneal mass ejection? What sort of preps should we have made already and any advice on last minute things to do?
If you're worried about viruses treat water with iodine, bleach or calcium hypochlorite ( pool shock) before filtering or boil water and let cool before filtering.
A Sawyer mini, $20 on Ebay, should be good for rainwater or water from a known source that has only bacteriological contamination.
Use food grade buckets. You can buy them but I get them free from a bakery.
Make sure you use the new cover sheet.
There are more than a few FReepers who like to point out how silly they see preparing for a ‘Mad Max’ situation is, but what if it isn’t ‘Mad Max’? What if it is something as simple as being able to shelter in place for 30-60 days while an outbreak runs its course? Could you make it through such a quarantine self imposed or mandator with what you have in your home? If you haven’t thought about it maybe its time. Ask yourself how would I provide for my family if the power was out for a month?
It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
That is from yesterday’s flare. This is a second one. Same thing happened with Carrington Event. It was second flare and traveled faster.
From Wiki:
“From August 28 through September 2, 1859, numerous sunspots were observed on the Sun. On August 29, southern aurorae were observed as far north as Queensland in Australia.[3] Just before noon on September 1, the English amateur astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson independently made the first observations of a solar flare.[4] The flare was associated with a major coronal mass ejection (CME) that travelled directly toward Earth, taking 17.6 hours to make the 93 million mile journey. It is believed that the relatively high speed of this CME (typical CMEs take several days to arrive at Earth) was made possible by a prior CME, perhaps the cause of the large aurora event on August 29, that “cleared the way” of ambient solar wind plasma for the Carrington event”
From Space Weather:
LONG DURATION FLARE AND EARTH-DIRECTED CME: Yesterday, the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2158 erupted, producing an explosion that lasted more than 6 hours. The flare peaked on Sept. 9th at 00:30 UT with a classification of M4 on the Richter Scale of Solar Flares. Long-duration flares tend to produce bright CMEs, and this one was no exception. Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory observed a CME racing out of the blast site at nearly 1,000 km/s (2.2 million mph):
Sometime Friday. Hope it is after the sunsets here!
What does Boehner have to do with it?
Possible power and communications disruptions. Gasoline, propane, batteries and water.
No, it’s Bush’s fault!
Obama’s science advisor (PhD, Transgender Studies) is flying to the sun to examine its present condition. Coming with him/her is the UN climate change team to see if glow-bull warming may have caused the increased flare incidence.
Not to worry, they plan to land at night.
My wife thinks I'm crazy ...
A solar storm will not generate an EMP that can impact electronics - so no need to build a faraday cage for this event.
A solar storm will impact the grid - it will be interesting to see how the grid operators will react to this. If it’s significant - they have more ability to monitor grid components than they ever have had. They’ll have a whole range of options - de-integrate the grid and operate “islands” to keep GIC from being transmitted across grid boundaries - to shutting down major elements of the grid (765kV lines, for instance)
Folks should think about preparing for a power outage of a few hours to a few days in duration. That should cover the most likely contingencies.
I’ve already got the “call” from our regional grid operator. Next 24-48 hours could be interesting to anyone connected.
Really? I’ve missed that. Are there really people here so stupid as to deny EMP?
“I’ve already got the “call” from our regional grid operator. Next 24-48 hours could be interesting to anyone connected.”
What do you do for them?
Yep, about 0800h, Friday...mountain time.
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