We have been prepping since 2008. I still have food, 25 year shelf life, so much of it, it takes up 2 closets in my house. The only thing I worry about is clean drinking water, you can only store so much water and so many filters. I have enough heirloom seeds to plant 8,000 acres of food. Medical Supplies, pew pew things :), and the windows on my house, you can throw a hammer at them, they will not break, they can withstand 150 mph winds, as we live in Hurricane alley. We do not smoke, but I do enjoy my adult beverages after work, that I would miss. We would just move out to grandpa's old farm, there is a home pad there, we could plant food. I hate to say it, if it happens, it will get ugly, better to be out of the cities. All of our cars are 2022 models, except 1 it is a 2013, they will not work if an EMP hits, they are computers. We thought about buying a really old car, but I have no where to put it. This just makes me start rethinking everything. A lot to ponder.
Everybody should read "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen. He's a military historian who "fictionalized" the "Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack" that was published in 2001. Its a chilling, non-sensationalistic, fictionalized tale of what a widespread "everything outage" would look like from an EMP from the point of view of a family that lives in a quasi-rural town. A mass coronal ejection from the sun, like happened during the Carrington Event in 1859, or a series of low-tech terrorist attacks directed at our critical infrastructure by "sleeper cells" would achieve pretty much the same result. For a non-fiction version, read "Lights Out" by Ted Koppel (before he went woke) which is based on the same government report. Alas, while the government KNOWS what will happen, they've done darned little to harden our critical infrastructure to be resistant to EMP or internal terror attack.
We have been prepping since 2008. I still have food, 25 year shelf life, so much of it, it takes up 2 closets in my house. The only thing I worry about is clean drinking water, you can only store so much water and so many filters. I have enough heirloom seeds to plant 8,000 acres of food. Medical Supplies, pew pew things :), and the windows on my house, you can throw a hammer at them, they will not break, they can withstand 150 mph winds, as we live in Hurricane alley. We do not smoke, but I do enjoy my adult beverages after work, that I would miss. We would just move out to grandpa's old farm, there is a home pad there, we could plant food. I hate to say it, if it happens, it will get ugly, better to be out of the cities. All of our cars are 2022 models, except 1 it is a 2013, they will not work if an EMP hits, they are computers. We thought about buying a really old car, but I have no where to put it. This just makes me start rethinking everything. A lot to ponder.
I dunno. The topic feels fear-pornish to me. Just sayin'. ✌️❤️
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Everybody should read "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen. He's a military historian who "fictionalized" the "Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack" that was published in 2001. Its a chilling, non-sensationalistic, fictionalized tale of what a widespread "everything outage" would look like from an EMP from the point of view of a family that lives in a quasi-rural town. A mass coronal ejection from the sun, like happened during the Carrington Event in 1859, or a series of low-tech terrorist attacks directed at our critical infrastructure by "sleeper cells" would achieve pretty much the same result. For a non-fiction version, read "Lights Out" by Ted Koppel (before he went woke) which is based on the same government report. Alas, while the government KNOWS what will happen, they've done darned little to harden our critical infrastructure to be resistant to EMP or internal terror attack.