What would you do if the power went out.

Yes, Just imagine all the wire inside your house. Would get pretty hot , pretty fast with a huge surge in power!

Hmmmm... but... if it was effectively an EMP-type scenario, would the pidgeon be able to find it's way, as they navigate mostly with the EM field, like many other animals?

In the country, and happy to be there :)

I think MOST people will try to help, within reason, hence my point about gathering friends / neighbors. Pooling resopurces and skills will be key. A supplemental note, however... a side-effect of this WILL be to create a more defensible position, because eventually, there WILL be violence over resources, and NOBODYwill have the luxury of giving past a certain point. That's not a mindset, my friend, THAT is an inevitability.

What lit the telegraph poles on fire in 1859?

Old phones get their voltage from the telephone line, not from the electrical grid. So they should work...

this scenario is why I always keep good hand tools around.

Dammitt didnt think about that

so we are supposed to 'assume' it was a solar flare that knocked out the power grid?

you really think that is the 'only' possibility?

this scenario is very likely seeing how we have been getting 'warned' repeatedly the past year that this 'could' happen

even though the sun has never done this before, we are expected to just believe it will do it now...almost sounds preplanned to me

Ditto

Ditto

Sorry...

I wonder - what exactly would go out in such a scenario (I have to admit that what I know about circuitry would fit in a thimble)? I remember once when electricity hit our house and zapped our TVs and microwave. Could you still run your applicances if you had solar power (aren't they usually tied into the grid) or a propane cooktop/oven/furnace? Would battery operated hand-held tools (flashlights) work? Would your car work (so long as you had gas) or would it zap the electrical parts? I can't help but agree with the other poster who said your house would probably catch fire -if there is such a surge as to knock out the grid?

But as I said, I don't think in the scenario you would HAVE a huge surge in power. I think a simple cessation of current would be more likely, as the points that collect and GENERATE power fail.

As an example, there's a tremendous surge of power when a transformer overloads... but the outlets in your HOUSE don't blow up. Think of it in those terms.

for 5 months?

and it would likely fry the cars too, and that will be a major biggie. like if you don't live close to a creek when your stored water runs out, you be in for a bad time.

Not really enough wiring, A truely doomsday one, will wipe out everything, your backyard generator, your solar power, Easiest thing to repair would be a waterwheel, that's if the wiring in your house hasn't fried, all the fuses blown out etc.

You ever been in a lightning storm?

You ever get blasted on to your ass from opening a fridge when lightning has just struck near by?

Ever see a power transformer blow up, when the lightning hasn't even struck close to it?

Just imagine that, only thousands of times stronger.

We don't know what will burn and what won't.

Just stating my opinion.

For 5 months, I guess I'd get a wood burning stove installed in my house stat. I could cook on it too. I live in the Rockies, lots of wood.

Old phones get their voltage from the telephone line, not from the electrical grid. So they should work...

High voltage current induced by the high energy magnetic ionospheric storm caused by a CME, working to do the exact opposite of a electromagnetic.

It fed magnetism (and also electricity) into the system and the constant fluxxing magnetic fields created the charge in the wiring.

The high voltage basically burned through the wires and set them alight.

Yes a few small house fires could be set off by the effect with metal tubing and wiring throughout the house, but you have to realise that the current and voltage induced is porportional to the amount of metal/metal wiring per square centimeter.

Yes, no and yes, although I HAVE gotten whomped by my metal toolbox in a storm :)

And I get what you are saying, but again, you're talking about inducing a high voltage into an already electrified system, basically overloading it. An EM scenario is DISRUPTING flow, rather than overloading it, so I just don't see the effect being nearly the same.

But, as previously stated, we really don't know WHAT will happen :) I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm right. As you put it, I'm also just giving my opinion.

Cheers!

We could argue all day about it.

I see your point.

My opinion is that there would be a lot of houses going up in smoke.

Cheers, we may meet up one day.