Good book, but it just kind of peters out at the end.
And get prepping!
I keep canned food at my undisclosed location. I buy the cans, and they go on a shelf. A couple of months short of the expiration dates, I rotate the stock out to my local food pantry and restock.
This costs me a few hundred dollars a year, but I am buying food for the food pantry, which I would do anyway, so really it costs me nothing. I am buying food for the food pantry, but I am just holding it at my house for a couple of years before I deliver it.
Win/Win.
And Moby dick was about a fishing trip.
Relying on the exaggerations of novelists as scientific proof is not a good plan.
If you were to go online and read a good mix of scientific documents—not doom porn—you will find that the danger of an EMP from a nuke is localized at worst. Sure, you could knock out New England, or Florida. But it would take multiple blasts to take out the entire continent.
Our SBLM’s would take out anyone that tried to do that. Our missile defense systems would take out the second, third, fourth attempts to detonate over the continent.
It would be horrible. And it would send the infrastructure problems of the world into a tailspin.
But it would not be the new middle ages. It would be a bump in the road. Except for the country of origin.
I am all for being prepared and stocking food. But to lose sleep over a “One Second After” scenario is overkill.
That canned food you’re giving to the food bank, which is a nice gesture, would be better than nothing if the need ever arose. Expiration dates mean next to nothing for cans that are in good condition and stored in a climate controlled environment.