Thanks SatinDoll. This is Y2K all over again. These solar flares which are biggest on record? It's like talking about the "Ozone hole" or anything else either newly discovered or measured more accurately.
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Posted on 08/01/2013 2:57:40 PM PDT by SatinDoll
According to researchers at EMPact America, an organization dedicated to studying and preparing for the possibility of large-scale electro magnetic pulse threats that can destroy our modern day electrical infrastructure, the earth came dangerously close to a serious destabilization event. A couple of weeks ago the sun emitted a massive CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) that, had it been earth-directed, would likely have wiped out critical portions of the world’s power grid and sent developed nations back to the stone age within a matter of seconds.
‘The world escaped an EMP catastrophe,’ Henry Cooper, who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defence, told Washington Secrets.
‘There had been a near miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us,’ added Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission.
‘Basically this is a Russian roulette thing,’ he said. ‘We narrowly escape from a Carrington-class disaster.’
Washington Examiner
It was a “Carrington-Class” event, named after the 1859 incident that left telegraphs around the world inoperable and reportedly even lit some of the equipment on fire because of the electric surge.
Solar flares are measured in classes, and though “Carrington” is not an official classification on the scale, it refers to a solar emission so powerful that it would send Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as they are often called, as far down as the equator (as was the case with the 1859 event). This means that the size of the solar flare would be massive, and the charged particles contained within it would be widespread, likely affecting every non-shielded electronic device on the planet.
The original Carrington event is estimated to have been larger than an X10 Class flare – a super solar flare. The measurements work similar to the earthquake Richter scale, where the next level up is 10 times more powerful than the one before it. An X1 flare, which is the lowest level of the X flares, is capable of disrupting electronic devices like satellites and even mobile communications. And X2 flare, would be ten times as powerful as the X1.
A Carrington Event flare would exceed X10 Class, making it thousands of times more powerful than an X1, with the capability of disrupting, or even rendering inoperable, everything from electric grid transformers and water utility plants, to cell phones and vehicles.
Though such powerful flares as the one that almost hit earth two weeks ago are rare, they happen more often than you may think. In November of 2003 an X28 Class solar flare – the largest ever recorded – narrowly missed earth.
Were such a powerful electro magentic pulse to hit hit the earth and wipe out critical infrastructure elements like utilities, satellite positioning systems and transportation, civilization as we know it would devolve into chaos within a matter of hours. Estimates suggest that in such a scenario 90% of America’s population would perish within one year’s time due to lack of food, clean water, medicine and other critical services currently made possible by on-demand electrical infrastructure.
Former Congressman Roscoe Bartlett has warned that every American should develop an emergency plan for exactly such a scenario:
“We don’t really think of those today, because it’s so convenient to go to the supermarket,” he cautions. “But you know, you’re planning because the supermarket may not always be there.”
The electrical grid could fail tomorrow, he frequently warns. Food would disappear from the shelves. Water would no longer flow from the pipes. Money might become worthless. People could turn on each other, and millions would die.
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The grid could be crippled at least four different ways, Bartlett says: terrorist assaults on power substations, a cyberattack, a massive solar storm and an electromagnetic pulse attack.
Bartlett has for decades warned of the harm of an EMP attack — a nuclear detonation in the atmosphere that could fry computers and anything with an electric circuit — in his writings, in legislation and in late-night speeches on the House floor, though experts differ on the seriousness of the threat. Some agree the dangers are real, while others say such an attack is unlikely and the potential effects remain uncertain.
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“Whatever level you’re concentrating on, being as self-sufficient as you can, as quickly as you can, is going to be the right thing to do,” he says.
Bartlett has suggested that those with the ability to do so should move their families out of major cities and become as self sufficient as possible:
A solar flare or man-made EMP (in the form of a Super EMP weapon) is an outlier.
Two weeks ago, had the sun spot that emitted the Carrington-like flare been directed just a few degrees in our direction, we’d be living in a different world today. Likewise, ten years ago, the earth took a glancing blow.
We have come close, and one day chances are an earth directed flare will take out our modern day electrical infrastructure.
It could happen a month from now or 10 years from now during the next solar maximum cycle. What we know is that it has happened before, and it will happen again.
It’s not impossible to survive such an event. It starts with understanding that the threat is real and then making an effort to take steps that insulate yourself and your family as best as possible should it come to pass:
Relocate out of major cities if possible, or have backup plans if doing so is impossible. Strategic relocation specialist Joel Skousen and Alex Jones have put together an informative (and free) documentary that is a must watch for those looking to exit large population centers. Preparedness starts with small steps. Get started with a primer on Prepping for a Two Week Power Outage Once your basic plans are in place, develop a long-term preparedness plan centered around building up your stockpiles, skills and strategies over time.
There are a variety of civilization affecting threats that we face, so preparing for an EMP attack or solar flare will actually ready you for a whole host of other worst-case scenarios.
If you haven’t already started, take it upon yourself to begin preparing today, because those who aren’t ready when disaster strikes will be destined to a fate of hardship and horrors.
It’s better to be prepared a day, a month or a year early, than to be one minute too late.
Be prepared.
If you abosolutely cannot live without a freezer, buy a propane gas cooled freezer - they have no moving parts and use NO electricity. They cool using about 3/4 of a gallon propane a month. If you have a 120 gallon propane tank, that is a lot of years usage. There also exists propane gas cooled refrigerators.
Buy solar panels to recharge batteries for use in home, low-voltage lighting. The energy is free. You must buy a lot of batteries, though, as they wear out.
For you who haven't even started prepping, get busy.
Ping - this is REALLY important!
For those who live on farms that have oil wells on them, should one be building a makeshift distillation tower to refine your own gas from the oil, because the energy company is probably not going to be able to get to the gas after all their trucks fail...
Just curious on this because I have family members who live on farms with oil wells on them and if this sorta collapse were to happen the wells would be fine as the well motors run on waste gas and use simple electronics that are EMP resistant.
Couldn’t a distillation tower be made out of a vertical pipe with several outlets at different heights?
Would be useful maybe to making your own fuel to power tractors and simple farm machinery....
Aaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, oh sh-t.
If I had an oil well, I wouldn’t build a distillation tower BECAUSE the waste products are incredibly toxic.
It just so happens my family owns acreage over the Monterey oil shale in California. There is an old natural gas well on the property. We’re looking into fracking those parcels. If we get oil, so be it. If it’s natural gas, it can be used straight from the well (I believe).
If I am wrong, don’t hesitate to correct my mistakes.
You don’t need an oil well, just use all the wood from houses that all the people are dead in to make producer gas. The Nazis did it in WWII - see Fischer-Tropsch.
Consider this: what fraction of the population would you guess has essentially no food available at home? More than a few days worth? A weeks worth? That’s about how many days you’ll have before the mobs ascend on those who do. It’s not a matter of “prepping”, it’s a question of numbers - the number of people who depend on EBT cards vs. the number of bullets you have...
Short answer, yes, you can distill your own gasoline. People were doing this a hundred and fifty years ago, no electronics, no precision industrial controllers, no catalytic cracking, etc. etc. etc.
Not anywhere near as efficient as a modern refinery, but plenty good enough to keep a farm running.
A bit mathematically challenged is the author? if each step is 10 times more powerful, that would be a [cue Sagan] billion times more powerful. "Thousands" indeed.
LOL! Mathematics must be taught carefully, or these ridiculous mistakes occur.
Wiener roast, anyone?
Why is it that we are only informed about these potentially earth shattering events after the fact?
The following is a comment made by Marc Slavo to the first comment following the article:
“The Daily Sheeple regularly posts updates based on NOAA data and is usually 1 – 3 days ahead of any major solar flare hits (about the time it takes to travel to earth from the sun): http://www.thedailysheeple.com/?s=solar+flare “
“Regular updates also posted to the Sheeple Facebook page.”
“So, the info is available, but I doubt we’d be made aware of it by mainstream media until it was just a few hours or minutes out.”
Earth shattering? Remember, back in 1859 people around the world survived this quite nicely. Just be prepared, that’s all.
Always remember close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. :-)
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Store and roatate.
Store what you eat, and eat what you store.
I’m not concerned. My tin foil hat will protect me!
Welcome to Detroit!
Technically I don’t believe we will ever go back to the Stone Age. This is due to the fact that we have the knowledge and education (some of us) to rebuild. It would take time but we would rebuild.
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