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

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God helps those that Love God and keep the ways of God, and treat each other with Love and Kindness, here, on Earth.

It appears to be north of the ecliptic, but they wont know for sure if earth will be effected until they get more data.

I have Celox hemostatic powder in my first aid kit, and some israeli combat bandages. Together, they can stop almost every kind of arterial bleeding. Celox is much better than Quick Clot because it does not heat up upon application(exothermic reaction), does not need detox after the event (not easy to find a ER room capable of removing the nasty stuff of Quick Clot from your body in a SHTF scenario), and it is completely natural, the active ingredient of Celox is Chitosan, present in crustacean shells.

running from the reaper lol

Shearon Harris Nuclear plant is about 20 miles from where I live now. However the winds normally don't blow in this direction. Am I worried about it?? To a point, but where the wind normally doesn't blow this way I am not going to freak out about it. If I have to move on there really isn't much place at all in the US where you can move that there isn't a nuke plant. So might as well stay put.

hahahahah that is funny

Yup. It's small enough to fit in an EMP proof container

Last Edited by Lil Sis on 09/02/2014 08:21 PM

Add zinc ointment to your supplies if you haven't already.

The psychological part of it will go away after about a month. It's fairly easy to give up what you had once you realize that you are to darn busy to ponder on it all. Personally I use to think at first about all that I had given up. However after the first month I realized I was to busy preparing for the garden, canning, and cleaning up the property so we could build on to even think about what I had lost. Then you have carrying water, boiling water, canning, dehydrating foods. Cutting wood for the winter months, planting crops, taking care of the farm animals. You want have time left at the end of the day to worry.

Sure many will die, will parish from the heat, or the cold, and having no water, but if you learn how to do things before it all happens you will be ready for most anything. However someone will have to dispose of all the bodies, People need to prepare their minds for that before something does happen.

Never give up. Life is worth living no matter what. I lived through 3 major heart attacks, I even died and was brought back. All I could think of is that I need to live because my family needed me. Someone out there needs us, and that is enough for all of us to want to live and not give up.

What I do recommend for people to have is a gas stove. You can always cook and can on it, even with no power and you can get a peculator and make coffee. A wood stove takes forever to cook on. I found that out the hard way.

Very sorry that I didn't read past page four... but most of it is old news for me.
ONE QUESTION that may have been answered is... does an emp affect an led bulb ???
they are electronic and it worries that my solar panels are connected to leds ... work great now, but what about an emp?

I'd eat tree bark, random mushrooms, bugs, and the family dog. No, not really.

Look after an emp with everybody just surviving, the first thing to happen is roving gangs of thugs pillaging resources and people in desperation. Because nobody is going to get 911 calls are they? It's community-based survival then. Which would be...ACTING AS NORMAL. Civilian. Civil. Getting along.

So I'd go off human standby mode. My brain would reactivate after it was numbed from the surveillance antenna towers dotted about the land. I would hear the ground waves and the planet waves again. Oh sweet jesus I miss those sounds; the invasive electrics hurt so much.

I'd triangulate by the stellar rotation around the axis of the planet. I'd find water, number one. Number two, fire. Then, it's like urban camping. Just consider some desert lands where they live like that ALL THE TIME. Where the fuck did we come from a thousand years ago? Nobody ever heard of a razor scooter?

Sheesh. OMG, where did the X-box go? we're all gonna die!! What do you mean I have to wash my underwear by hand, in a barrel of water? What do you mean I have to poop in a bucket? C'mon, Californians and their earthquake, riot, fire, and mudslide survival training gets them through 2 weeks, and after that, we find a friggin' way to get things moving like old times. Provided, no invasion.

There is always radio. It can be cranked by hand for power.

Stitch it together and wear a money coat. It's cloth not paper.

It's more like yocto or zepto watts coming from the sun.

Get my lord of the flies on. Build me a MadMax vehical out of barbed wire and human remains. Drive around acting like a complete nut job gathering up an army of mutants armed with left over hockey equipment.

Anyone every notice that The Humungus and Bane sound alike?

Haha, that's creative. You could make a hat too.

You are way ahead of the game with your experience. Any tips to share with us that we might not have thought of?

Actually its not for a few years, but a lifetime.
Once society collapses and the technical people are either dead or scattered, the chances of restarting society is quite small in the short term.

To do a restart, requires replacement parts from overseas.
How will you tell them what to send?
How will you pay for it?
Who and with what equipment will you use to install it, to get it operational? Electrical Transformers weigh in the tons.
This is just for the generating and power substations, then you must fix the downed power lines, any open natural gas lines(an explosion risk), water lines, etc.
Now the Feeding, Housing, Transporting and Communication for the workers, for the months of work to complete such a project is another matter.
All this assumes the world economy survives both the collapse of the US Stock Market and whatever the source of the EMP was,(like WW3).
So would not be a easy project even if attempted at one local level at a time.

Used to live up that way too. Make sure you have a few things in your car- comfortable shoes, coat or sweatshirt- whatever, some water. I keep a small backpack in my car with matches, hand crank radio, some snacks, few medical things, one of those silly mylar blankets- a small, lightweight tent would be awesome, blanket, pillow, hand wipes. Just some stuff in case.

Carrington Event


It was this time of year 155 years ago when the solar super storm, now known as the Carrington Event, took place during solar cycle 10. The event has been named for the British astronomer, Richard Carrington, as he observed from his own private observatory the largest solar flare during this event which caused a major coronal mass ejection (CME) to travel directly toward Earth. The 33-year-old astronomer - widely acknowledged at the time to be England’s best - also recorded in detailed fashion the appearance of the sunspot regions that he saw at the time.

From August 28, 1859 to September 2, 1859 numerous sunspots and solar flares were observed on the sun and auroras were being observed in different parts of the world. Just before noon on September 1st, Richard Carrington was using his telescope to project an 11-inch wide image of the sun on a screen and he carefully drew the sunspots that he saw. Suddenly, two brilliant beads of blinding white light appeared over the sunspots and he realized that he was witnessing something unprecedented. He left for about one minute to find another witness and found upon their return that much had already subsided.

Just before dawn the next day, skies all over Earth erupted in red, green and purple auroras - even in tropical locations like Cuba, the Bahamas and Hawaii. The massive solar flare caused a major CME that reached the Earth some 17.6 hours later. Normally such a journey takes 3 or 4 days, but an earlier CME actually cleared the way of the ambient solar plasma for the second blast to move so quickly. The auroras were so bright over the Rocky Mountains that their glow awoke gold miners who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning. People in the northeastern US could read a newspaper by the aurora’s light. Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America went haywire and, in some cases, telegraph operators were literally shocked as sparks were flying and telegraph paper was often set on fire. Some systems continued to work despite being disconnected from their power supplies as aurora-induced electric currents still allowed messages to be transmitted.

Now we know that solar flares happen frequently, especially during solar sunspot maximums, but in those days there were no X-ray satellites or radio telescopes and no one knew flares existed until that September morning. “It is rare that one can actually see the brightening of the solar surface which takes a lot of energy to heat up the surface of the sun” says a modern day NASA astronomer. “In the 160-year record of geomagnetic storms, the Carrington event is the biggest.” In fact, going back farther in time by examining Arctic ice (energetic particles leave nitrates in ice cores), it is estimated that this event may have been the biggest in 500 years and nearly twice as big as the runner-up.

In today’s world, electronic technologies have become embedded into everyday life and are, of course, quite vulnerable to solar activity. Power lines, long-distance telephone cables, radar, cell phones, GPS, satellites – all could be significantly affected by an event like this one. The good news is that observations of the sun are a constant in today’s world with a fleet of spacecraft in position to monitor the sun and gather data on solar flares. The bad news is that the Carrington Event occurred during a weak solar cycle which actually resembles rather closely our current solar cycle so we always have to stay on guard for a potential powerful solar storm - even during times of weak solar cycles.

no worries, no God talk needed. just checking....

i was talking about fisrt aid with a young friend that recently joined the Marines and is a medic assistant. he said they are moving away from the powders because they found the powders are causing clots to move through your body.

the only thing they carry now is gauze impregnated with quick clot type stuff.

of course if you have a deep one, the granules is the only way but i suppose you could still try and stuff the gauze/quick clot into the wound.

things like this are unknown since no one has experienced it BUT from what i've read, small items like that might be spared if they are not powered up.

i also read that the wave length of the EMP is so long that is your item in question is shorter than the wave length it might be spared.

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