Posted on 05/14/2018 8:37:04 AM PDT by Perseverando
I thought that 0's "$Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Scam" was getting into this. What happened?
If it is "fairly cheap" to get the grid hardened, somebody better get their azz in gear and get it done.
Notice that in any of these ‘survival scenarios’, that women will still have ‘makeup’ and everyone has access to freshly cleaned clothing.
The 1800's isn't modern civilization?
Were they living in caves or something?
‘If only someone would have had $4 Trillion to spend on “shovel ready” projects to fix all of this stuff...
WHERE THE **** DID THEY SPEND $4 TRILLION?????’
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you said it, Brother!!
While there's some dispute about the actual severity of the damage done by the EMP, what he foresees as the breakdown of society, people going feral, and the die off's because of meds not being available, is chilling.
EMP stands for Every Myth Possible.
The one advantage I see is that so many city folks are so ill equipped to survive in the outdoors, that many will succumb to the elements, especially if it happens at a colder time of year.
He builds a good case for having a nice wood stove in in the house and not being so dependent on electric gadgets.
Homesteading skills will be invaluable.
We went to my son's in NH for Thanksgiving a few years ago, when that nor'easter hit. He lost power two hours before we got there on Tues. He lived ion a someone remote back road and it was Sat afternoon after we left to come home that he got his power back.
FORTUNATELY, he had a coal stove and a good supply of coal.
We made due with melting snow water for bathing and bottled water for drinking (his well was out) and cooked on the top of the stove ala Little House on the Prairie.
But we were comfortable and warm and what an eye opening experience that was.
As long as you can stay warm, you're good. I cannot fathom what it would have been like is he had no heat.
The biggest laugh we got out of the whole thing was the number of generators that were hooked up and running within a matter of hours. EVERYONE up there is prepared for power outages from nor'easters/ice storms.
I always think of the “Trigger Effect” episode of “Connections” and how inevitably we are going to get stuck in the ‘technology trap’.
The Northeast Blackout from a few years ago comes to mind.
And that wasn’t even sabotage.
This is just a rehash of a very old report, long ago dismissed as nothing but a bunch of people in search of grant money.
And they are in a warm climate and don’t have to worry about freezing to death.
Then don’t waste the bandwidth announcing you are posting it.
Absolutely. I can pay a few more dollars or so a month for hardening of my electric supply.
I don't think we make any of the big transformers here that would be required. It would be a massive project just to acquire the transformers, let alone get them installed. Maybe we need to have a manhattan project for the transformers?
There’s no valid comparison to the mainland US grid.
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Maybe not but the dire effects would be 300 times worse.
In the 1800s there was no electricity or A/C and no running water. So, I would not consider the 1800s to be modern.
Our society is woefully soft and would not fare well without modern utilities. FReepers might do a better job of handling it than many others. One doesn’t have to necessarily be a hard core prepper to have emergency supplies on hand to at least survive a few months without walmart and grocery stores.
Thanks for the nice note.
Water.
1 gallon per day per person.
We have 5 people, 11 alpacas, three dogs and two cats.
That’s 21 animals that need water.
The alpacas alone use over 20 gallons a day.
They aren’t really good to eat, but we can spin and knit their fleece.
With no electricity our well is as good as empty.
Our nearest neighbor has a portable genny we can hook up for water.
Those snowflake city folk who live hirise apartments in Denver will be dead of thirst in a week.
The rise time of the E3 (nuclear or solar source) pulse is incredibly slow, like seconds. A guy with a hand switch could cut the connection. Needless to say any type of mechanical relay would work. A semiconductor switch would be fine. The only project needed is surge protection and we know how to do that.
I actually really enjoyed the storms we had at our cabin in the Sierras. It was a short little learning exercise to make sure we were prepared. It was a remote little community, and one year we got 30 feet of snow. You never knew when the storm would topple a tree that would take out your power. Being so remote and depending on snow removal, the power companies couldn’t get up there in a timely manner – ever.
We eventually learned exactly what to have, and I actually enjoyed having next several days in a row of living, as you said like Little House on the Prairie. There was one time the power was out for two weeks and that was a bit much.
When we moved here, we got a whole house generator With the house.. And a 500 gallon propane tank to feed it. However, that would only last for a short time. So two wood stoves inside that can be cooked on and 5 acres of wood, plus the entire Cherokee national Forest at the end of the holler, makes me feel a bit more prepared. Oh, and my pizza oven outside :-) that probably seems extravagant to the neighbors, but that’s in lieu of a real wood cookstove, which is what I really wanted.
It sounds like your son is prepared, no matter what will happen! I would say he has good genes :-)
And those effects would last for hours in most cases. The transformers are fairly easy to protect and mostly protected. The most compreheansive study showed that physical protection was lacking. A team of snipers could disable a portion of the grid by shooting out the largest transformers.
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