re: EMP: Is the Threat Real?

What good are the oil reserves if refineries do not have power and all of their controls are fried?

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I promise you every year the flu season nearly overwhelms the medical system in this country. There are multiple instances of patients held in the er for days waiting to be admitted just with that. Our health care system is no way shape or form going to be handle a country wide mass casualty situation or massive loss of power. You will be on your own.

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Nah. shite hits the fan? No more litigation, documentation or other bullshite. We can just roll. And some of us are used to being without shite for extended periods in rural areas. You'd be surprised with the shite we could come up with.

Not to mention, many of us are preppers.

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How would a single emp take out the entire country? How does that work?

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The grid itself is relatively crappy...so as soon as the EMP hits metals shorting wires, causing excess draw, killing power stations 1 by 1...

But Texas and the West can cut its ties to the East...

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The One Second After book series by William Fortschen outlines all of what you just posted, but as a fictional account told by a resident of Black Mountain, NC.

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Just ordered it from Amazon

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these countries understand retaliation would be absolutely horrific and essentially fatal

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They would effectively cease to exist. We discuss this situation regularly and have a plan in place. We're still woefully unprepared but we have a water source.

The Foxfire book is awesome. I still have my Dad's copy. It's at least 40 years old.

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This just isn't accurate. Any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid payments is mandated by the government to have back up and even redundant generators

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Yes Back up generators. But the EMP blast will fry the entire computer system the xray equipment the ultrasound equipment the heart telemetry monitors and all the lab equipment. The only diagnostic tool not damaged will be the MRI because it is built in a faraday cage when installed to prevent its electromagnetic field from affecting the rest of the radiology dept.

So evaluating patients will be purely by clinical judgement. And I promise you that the modern trained physician is ill equipped to do that with out the technology.

I am not convinced that an EMP attack will be all that devastating. Not all electrical or electronic devices will be affected, and I am referring to ordinary consumer devices, not hardened military equipment. EMP protection can be added to existing systems relatively easily.

It is important to realize that lightning is an EMP event. Anything in the home that has survived nearby lightning strikes (hit a tree in the yard, for instance,) will probably survive an EMP strike also.

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no country would explicitly do this, but suicidal, religious, anti-american fanatics would. Luckily they don't have the ability for now. Things change, sometimes fast. If they did carry something like this out, who do you declare war on?

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The largest state sponsors of terrorism are Iran and Pakistan - both of them with nuclear weapons in their possession. So if terrorists were to gain access to the button ... it is plausible that it could happen one day. Which is why it is imperative that these states be kept in check.

A nuke going off at ground level in NYC would take down most of the grid along the east coast.

North Korea is another problem altogether. They are led by a madman - so no one knows what he/they may do.

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What if the pulse came from the Sun? Are we prepared for an all-out war with an enormous ball of fire?

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What does that even mean? Was that meant to be patronizing on some level? LULZ you're being ridiculous - made yourself look bad I'm afraid.

Anyways, with regard to our Sun - we have work to do there (on individual and family levels) and there is no denying that we are rolling the dice as a society, playing the odds, under the guise of a limited budget.

It's like putting-off repairing a leaky roof. Eventually that roof will fail and collapse-in on you and then it'll be too late and it'll cost you 10x more to fix ... if you survive unscathed.

In the case of our grid going down for an extended period of time, say 60 days or more, it will cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives. It would be the most catastrophic world changing event imaginable short of an asteroid or meteor impact, or perhaps a caldera eruption.

If the solar flare/storm were large enough, if the resulting solar winds were to hit us head-on ... it could easily set us back a century or more. Millions and millions would perish from starvation, disease, violent social upheavel, exposure to the elements, etc.

https://empandsolarprotection.com/

https://www.survivopedia.com/emp-solar-gear-1/

https://interferencetechnology.com/emp-protecting-housing-solar-rooftops/

https://www.futurescience.com/emp/emp-protection.html

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Among all iterations of electromagnetic disturbances that might occur, it is important to keep things in perspective. A man made nuclear induced EMP may never happen in our hemisphere. On the other hand, a severe solar storm that could and would destroy most of the world's power grids appears nearly inevitable - not a matter of if, but rather when. Protecting against the damaging effects a severe solar storm could be easily accomplished, relatively inexpensively, by the electrical utilities; however it is not being done and there are few signs that it will ever be.

A severe solar storm poses little threat to electronics, but it would take down most power grids in the world, possibly for a period of months if not years. This is a major problem for the United States, most especially for the Eastern United States, making it all the more important to prepare for an EMP event originating from any source.

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