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

WTF would you do with money other than wipe your ass with it?

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Why 'get ready' for ANY thing that may come?
If you feel you must 'prepare', you are living in Fear and Loneliness;
God Loves Us, and will Protect Us, and Keep Us.
This is not me HOPING;
This is a Fact; a Reality, for Many!
All you need DO is to ASK, and, You are In.

Life is to Live, and, we gotta pass on someday,
so, I say, Have Fun until It's done!
Then, Us, and God's Son, and Our Sun, will be as One.

So, there is No Fear, here;
I'll be laughing as it happens.

There is no Death, no Finality;
No matter what, we will carry on...
campfires and guitars! Yee Haw!

Yeah, only because they didn't know what they were missing.

Sure is a lot of talk about this of late

The "humans disappearing" thing is Bible Doom, I think, and that's a whole 'nuther thing.

Would not be fun but yes, when I lived in MT learned many things from that place

Um, the few survivors would be those that are capable of intelligent cooperation. This leaves a whole lot of folks out of the survival picture. There will be a mass die off.

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Recently I bought some basic medical supplies to sort of fill out what I already have. I went to Amazon.com and got one of those scopes that the doctor uses to look in the ear, a little stethescope and blood pressure cuff, and a battery operated no contact thermometer. I can use rechargeable batteries in the thermometer and it is pretty sturdy. Mercury thermometers I have already, but there are drawbacks. If we are looking at a situation were we may encounter epidemics, I do not want to be using an under the tongue thermometer, I want the ill person to stand over there while I stand over here and take the temp.

I also bought some of that spray on artificial skin and some wet pack burn bandages. These are consumables, but I think that getting through the first few months is top priority, and these things are quick and effective.

The battery powered thermometer wouldn't work. All electronic devices would be useless, unless you kept them in some kind of EMP-proof container.

One major problem will be the nuclear power plants that reqire power for cooling. Once the power is off, maybe the back-up power plants wil run the cooling system for a week or two. That may or may not be enough to safely shut the reactors down. If they do get them shut down, the problem is the spent rods stored at the reactors. They require a constant supply of cooling water. Without it, we will have dozens of Fukishimas all over the world.

Is our government ready, is the big question , if this happened and war everywhere just gonna be a mess the readiness you really need to have is Armour of God

Yeah you can but you do not know how they would act in a crisis unless you made a plan long before any event like this would happen.

Ask my husband, a person he thought was a friend attacked him from behind for no reason at all last week.

No. I'm prepared to 'die'.

Nice- you added some things I haven't thought of. Thank you for sharing! I'm going to pick up one of those thermometers and I need a blood pressure cuff, the pump up one- I saw them at Wallyworld.

Keep readily available cap/rotor, wires for older GM cars/trucks. Battery and possibly starter motor/alternator also.

Sounds like a lot to buy but...

There will be plenty of veichles available for the taking that fit the criteria.

Keep everything isolated in an aluminum trash can in the basement

good to go!

I have plenty of things stock piled for now just in case if something should happen. I know I need extra batteries though and some more solar lights that I can recharge when needed outside.

However I am I guess one of the lucky ones. I lived in Maine for 2 years with no running water, no electric and no phone. All that with 2 kids in diapers and me pregnant with #3. So yeah I know what living without electric and stuff is all about. It isn't a biggie for me. Where we live many of the folks would leave and head towards cities thinking that would be better for them. However they will find out quickly how bad it will get.

I have been stock piling many items that are on sale, weekly, and monthly, along with items they are closing out on. Right now I have a 12 months supply of dishwasher packs, that cost me less then $15 for all of it because they were closing out on it, and I had a coupon for it. So I only paid $1 to $1.50 a pack. Laundry detergent I have about 6 months supply of, and Aspirin I have 3 years supply of. As for food and water I have close to 9 months worth put away. That doesn't include the fresh eggs we get daily from the chickens.

Yeah I can make due if the power and the cars go. Believe me it would be much easier then you think.

We can thank that bitch Al. Senator Lisa Murkowski for shooting down the vote on hardening the grid.

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Nope definitely not a taker, I want to get into heaven someday...and please don't start with the no God thing. There are other threads for that. But if the shtf preps will eventually run out, and you will need to go back to basics.

And if you have to run you can only take so much with you.

Ceramic water filter?

Where can you find these?

Wow, you'd be a good person to answer the psychological preparation question that was asked earlier. I know what I think, I'm just not sure I could put it in words that would make sense for anybody else.

it will be the dark ages
people will be killing each other over food and water

God helps those who help themselves.

^this^

If you have a fever you show the physical symptoms, warm skin, chills, why do you need a device to tell you that? Not knocking it, we all get the things that make sense and bring comfort to us, but I was just curious why?

Takers will be in short supply when the easy marks run out of supplies. Most preppers are prepared to defend themselves, and their preps. I fully expect gangs from the big city will eventually find my house. They will certainly not be taking any more after that. I like Vlad's idea, put the bodies on pikes where everyone can see them.

1. To take the temp of other people who may have a communicable disease without touching them.

2. To determine the severity of the fever. An adult can begin hallucinating at around 104F, and the fever can cause lasting damage in some. When the fever is approaching that temp, more effort should be given to lowering the temp than when it is 101F or 102F. A high fever is potentially more damaging in an adult. I can get warm skin and chills at 100.5, but it is not a dangerous temp.

3. It is not to comfort me, but to have a good idea of what is actually happening so as to determine what to do next.

In a nutshell, not to tell if I or some else has a fever, but how high is the fever. Just like in the doctor's office or emergency room.

I take it you don't have children?

For larger wounds, you should have some Quick Clot, powder or bandages. It's a little more expensive that most first aid supplies, but it's like a papachute (if you need it and don't have it, you will never need it again).