[ATOMIC_PUNK]

BE PREPARED !

[cmsgop]

Good Post!

[Gemflint]

Bump!

[Samwise]

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[11B3]

Saved to hard drive for future reference. Thank you for posting.

BTTT

[P.O.E.]

I was just wondering this the other day:

Would it be useful to have a portable generator you could wheel over to the local gas station, hook up to the fuse box, and get the pumps running?

I assume it would be easiest if the station owner was willing to help.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Read this guys and gals please print it out. keep it on hand dont want to lose anyone for lack of info or any reason.

[GOPJ]

Great post bump...

[txhurl]

Thank you. Are the ping lists deployed?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

SHELTER, WATER, FOOD, CLOTHING, FIRST AID, DEFENSIVE TOOLS, CASH, MISCELLANEOUS HOUSEHOLD & AUTOMOTIVE TOOLS

[GWfan]

Very sobering.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT for later.

[Poohbah]

Additional thoughts on Cyber attack:

Read and heed the CERT notices for the computer systems under your control. Make sure you have all relevant hotfixes installed; make sure that your boxes aren't already zombified by some pimply-faced kid in a turban shouting "ALLAH AKHBAR! I HAVE ROOT!"

[ConservativeLawyer]

For when it hits the fan preparedness ping.

[hillsborofox]

bump.

[virgil]

I can't remember, but does anyone here know if our DEFCON level changed on 9/11?

[doug from upland]

Using glass is a favorite trick of the terrorist bomber. Glass is a killer in explosions. I won't make this a commercial by giving the company name, but the company with which I am associated has for 30 years manufactured and installed an optically clear 4-mil and 7-mil security window film that allows glass to sustain a 500-lb TNT bomb from a distance of 111 feet. It is the state of the art product in the world. We begin soon two projects in Times Square.

In the Bali bombing, glass was broken 500 yards away. As an example, if a 400-lb car bomb was detonated 150 feet from your window, the kill and maiming zone inside the building could extend up to about 200 feet within the building.

If you work in a building that might be a target or near a building that might be a target, the facility manager of your structure needs to be doing something to protect you. We protected a building a block and a half away from the Murrah building in OKC. Buildings all around ours had broken windows and tremendous interior damage. We didn't have one window give way and allow the blast to penetrate the structure.

FReepmail me if you need more info.

[doug from upland]

Who is the FReeper who markets iodine pills?

[AFreeBird]

Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition

The purpose of this book is to provide Americans and other unprepared people with information and self-help instructions that will significantly increase their chances of surviving a nuclear attack. It brings together field- tested instructions that, if followed by a large fraction of Americans during a crisis that precedes an attack, could save millions of lives. The author is convinced that the vulnerability especially of Americans to nuclear threat or attack must be reduced and that the wide dissemination of the information contained in this book will help preserve peace with freedom.

Underlying the advocacy of Americans learning these down-to-earth survival skills is the belief that if one prepares for the worst, the worst is less likely to happen. Effective American civil defense preparations would reduce the probability of nuclear blackmail and war. Yet in our world of increasing dangers, it is significant that the United States spends much less per capita on civil defense than many other countries. The United States' annual funding is about 50 cents per capita, and only a few cents of this is spent on war-related civil defense. Unless U.S. civil defense policies are improved, you are unlikely to receive from official sources much of the survival information given in this book.

More related info in Nuclear War Survival Skills.

Somewhat dated in its premis, but the information is invaluable.

[Quietly]

Include in the emergency kit a hefty bottle of strong drinking spirits for use as an anethesthetic.

[foreverfree]

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