Are you prepared for a EMP? How would you survive?

You said the Obama adm. Is doing nothing...but every time that he propose the plan to rebuild infrastructure , the negative of congress is present. Have the facts straight.

You said the Obama adm. Is doing nothing...but every time that he propose the plan to rebuild infrastructure , the negative of congress is present. Have the facts straight.

Affirmative action obongo is a commief*ckwit hell bent on the destruction of the US, economy and its infrastructure. If not for the safeguards he'd EMP the US himself and be done with it, hand it over to the commies. Fire enough US generals and even that may be workable.

I'm sorry I don't post often and I'm bad with quoting, but anyway we have to remember that in the scenario we are talking about, the large distribution transformers would be damaged. Those take between 2 and 5 years for delivery from overseas. The first thing needed is juice from the plants. Then transformers to make it usable

While I admire the Amish - if this happens they will be slaughtered by the hungry mobs. If the mobs had any intelligence they would work WITH the Amish for long term survival.

Slowin' down... We need to double up on the doom here.
All the US nuke plants will run out of battery and diesel for cooling pumps pretty quick. The diesels are all modern electronic control types so they may not even start. Storage pools with 1000's of tons of fuel rods will start cooking off and we'll have Fuku bonfires/explosions all over the US. Something 'One Second After' glossed over in it's 'local eye view' style.

Slowin' down... We need to double up on the doom here.
All the US nuke plants will run out of battery and diesel for cooling pumps pretty quick. The diesels are all modern electronic control types so they may not even start. Storage pools with 1000's of tons of fuel rods will start cooking off and we'll have Fuku bonfires/explosions all over the US, Fuku will not be brought online... ever. Something 'One Second After' glossed over in it's 'local eye view' style. AC611 may not have any juice to route even if he fixed all the blown circuits.

I will survive. Simple, find brick building with a basement, water supply, ina good location. Then I will murder any person who stands between me and my children eating. Live as long as we can. Don't cross me I will gladly saw off someones head for a can of peaches, I'd do that shit right now, imagine during a EMP. LOL

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Now you have done it - brought double doom to our thread - damn!

Humans have been at our current evolutionary level for at least 50,000 years.

Up to just 100 years ago, the norm was a family-run no-utilities self-sufficient homestead that got everything it needed locally.

Have we really slid so far?

I'm a well urbanized animal. If I can ride out the initial die-offs or round-ups or whatever, and assuming whatever gets everyone else doesn't get me too, I can easily live on the junk and remains of a city. Hell, there must be thousands of solar garden lanterns stuck in lawns within a 5 minute walk of me. One car battery and an AC converter, I have power back. Hell, three alternators and a source of running water, say dropping a water wheel in the storm sewer, I have power again.

Solar panel + 12v pump + tubes + bucket = self-powered hydroponic bed. Dig a hole in the ground, line with hay or dead grass or old insulation or anything at all, place sheet of glass on top, greenhouse.

If our relatives 2 or 3 generations back had our amount of useful crap kicking around and going to waste (and knew how to use it), they would have used it to supplement their already self-sufficient homesteads and would practically be living in utopia.

Hell, if I had the free time and ability to scavenge scrap crap that nobody will care about post-doom, I'll be fine.

If I share this knowledge with others and help them do the same, I can participate in restarting civilization. That my simian life should have such relevance in this age of pointlessness would be an honor.

Every nuclear reactor in the affected area would go into meltdown, so it's actually a pointless topic.
Ya'll be dead is all...

Nuclear plants are a whole different world. We all probably share the same amount of knowledge about them. I've seen that show where they say they begin auto shut down when they experience failure. Who knows if it's true. I know I wouldn't want to be anywhere near or downwind of one.

Help! I have not read all the replies but can someone tell me what good a generator will do us if all electrics are fried? Did I miss something. I have one big solar panel, how do I protect it? Help please. If EMP fries everything, what good is a generator?

Help! I have not read all the replies but can someone tell me what good a generator will do us if all electrics are fried? Did I miss something. I have one big solar panel, how do I protect it? Help please. If EMP fries everything, what good is a generator?

"All military vehicles, equipment, weapons and communication systems are EMP protected.

Imagine a nation where we are all thrusted backwards into the stone-age, under martial law and only the military possesses the ability to survive."
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Info for cold weather survival-

Dept. of the Army Field Manual (1968)
Basic Cold Weather Manual
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AC611,
Yeah they'd SCRAM and shutdown fine with battery power, like Fuku. Long term without circulating pumps, they wouldn't make it.

Primitive predatory behavior.
No food.
Exploding deserted nuke plants.

That means we have to add radioactive cannibals to this doom eventually. :0

A generator should have heavy wiring and 'work' after the EMP. The problem is the motor turning it and it's electronics. There are old motor/generator that don't have electronics.

btw sandpiper, What are you going to do with the generator electric after the EMP?
You have no food.
Primitive predators/radioactive cannibals roaming around.
No one else has communication or electric.
AC611 is busy with all the govt agencies and will likely never finish the people repairs.
You have bigger problems than electric.

In my mind, our X factor is our offshore nuclear vessels. I would imagine some of them would serve as our new temporary power plants. Thinking along those lines, I think we could get limited power up relatively quickly. With a little luck there would at least be a few hundred surviving transformers. In that case it may be possible to keep mass outages under a few months.

I've always wondered if I could take a generator apart and turn the axle with a running stream or windmill. I'm sure a handy guy could rig something powered by Mother Nature.

At least they can't send us bills. LOL