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Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:10 pm to bamarep
The EMP will fry anything connected to a battery and anything with electricity flowing through it. If NoKo planned to set off an EMP, they would not use only one.
All motors will get fried; therefore, ALL water pumps, gas pumps, natural gas pumps that get fried will need to be replaced, all household electronics that are plugged in, all wiring inside homes, auto, or boat, everything.
You will not be able to pump gas, use credit cards, etc. There will be no refrigeration because ALL refrigerators will be fried too.
Automobiles will not work if their battery is connected.
There will be no internet, cell phones won't work.
How to combat this:
1) Have a spare car and disconnect the battery. (Run the car once a week, but disconnect your other car battery when you drive this car.)
2) Have a generator at your house. Make sure it is disconnected from the grid, and the battery is disconnected. Run it periodically according to manufacturer specs. Have a 100 - 1000 gallon tank filled to the top which you can retrieve the fuel manually.
3) Have a coal/wood fired grill with Plenty of wood/coal.
4) Be able to grow your own food.
5) Have extra rice, canned foods, any food that has a long shelf life.
6) Have a manual water well.
7) Have plenty of candles, kerosine lamps, and spare batteries not connected to anything electrical.
8) Have a few acres of land with cows, goats, and/or chickens. You will need a food supply.
9) Build a faraday Cage to protect your electronics. Even though the internet won't work, you will be able to access computer files stored on your computer and hard drive if you protect it. Your generator can recharge your battery.
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All motors will get fried; therefore, ALL water pumps, gas pumps, natural gas pumps that get fried will need to be replaced, all household electronics that are plugged in, all wiring inside homes, auto, or boat, everything.
You will not be able to pump gas, use credit cards, etc. There will be no refrigeration because ALL refrigerators will be fried too.
Automobiles will not work if their battery is connected.
There will be no internet, cell phones won't work.
How to combat this:
1) Have a spare car and disconnect the battery. (Run the car once a week, but disconnect your other car battery when you drive this car.)
2) Have a generator at your house. Make sure it is disconnected from the grid, and the battery is disconnected. Run it periodically according to manufacturer specs. Have a 100 - 1000 gallon tank filled to the top which you can retrieve the fuel manually.
3) Have a coal/wood fired grill with Plenty of wood/coal.
4) Be able to grow your own food.
5) Have extra rice, canned foods, any food that has a long shelf life.
6) Have a manual water well.
7) Have plenty of candles, kerosine lamps, and spare batteries not connected to anything electrical.
8) Have a few acres of land with cows, goats, and/or chickens. You will need a food supply.
9) Build a faraday Cage to protect your electronics. Even though the internet won't work, you will be able to access computer files stored on your computer and hard drive if you protect it. Your generator can recharge your battery.
LINK /
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:18 pm to bamarep
Like the US doesn't have a plan for that. From the launch? Get real.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:33 pm to bamarep
This is incredibly stupid. If any missile from North Korea looked like it was headed over here it would be intercepted, and then north Korea would be turned to glass. Also, North Korea could not possibly take out the power grid in more than one area with a single attach, which again would result in the country being turned to glass. They would not get more than one in here. And even if they did, by what mechanism are 90% of people going to die.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:37 pm to bamarep
No way in hell 90% of the population of any country dies due to lack of electricity.
I doubt it would even be 10%.
It would wreck the economy and stuff but people would make due and scrap by to survive.
I'm sure a lot of our allies would also send us aid (hopefully).
I doubt it would even be 10%.
It would wreck the economy and stuff but people would make due and scrap by to survive.
I'm sure a lot of our allies would also send us aid (hopefully).
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:41 pm to djmicrobe
I'm gonna need a Faraday cage to protect my electronics after the Apocalypse?
I'm out!
I'm out!
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:52 pm to junkfunky
in addition to my first page reply... the power companies have back up upon back up systems. a single emp cannot take down an entire grid. period. it would take dozens to do so and likely 100 for the whole grid.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:56 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:06 pm to bamarep
quote:Good Lord
Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:07 pm to EthanL
quote:
You’re gonna have to explain to me how shutting down the power grid would kill 90% of Americans.
Especially to us baws in Alabama
Who can live off the land for 2 years
But most importantly, could have power up-and-running in 3 days
now think about the gentleman living in a 9th story city apartment with no savings or survival skills...
Or all those baws in Bama that wouldn't know how to farm, store the meat they kill etc... without plugging in anything
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:15 pm to Ole Messcort
quote:
people lived without electricity for thousands of years
Not like do today. This is a real threat. You are looking at no drinking water and no water treatment for almost all Americans......wells don't work when the lights go off....and generators don't run when there ain't no refineries......food shortages would begin almost immediately.....rioting would soon follow.....shipping would stop immediately......when you ain't got no water you got about 3-7 days......
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:18 pm to EthanL
quote:
You’re gonna have to explain to me how shutting down the power grid would kill 90% of Americans. Especially to us baws in Alabama Who can live off the land for 2 years But most importantly, could have power up-and-running in 3 days
How much gas gave you got on hand and how long will it stay useable? More importantly do you know how to hand dig a well and do you own land where potable water is 30-40 feet beneath you? Unlikely as that water is probably not potable any longer.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:21 pm to PrimeTime Money
quote:
Time to learn how to hunt and fish and shite
Better learn how to hand dig a well...most Americans don't even know what a pick is used for......
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:38 pm to bamarep
Haha this is the dumbest shite ever. Everyone would just move to Canada or Mexico or Alaska or England or anywhere really till the electricity came back on.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 2:23 am to Ole Messcort
An event like this would likely result in chaos in the large cities. A lot of people would die there. The ammo and guns that semi rural and rural people stockpile is for when the city people start to go all Mad Max trying to take our survival resources.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 4:34 am to bamarep
I would grow a mullet, pull out my fathers 77 gmc and run it on moonshine, raise hogs & chickens, grow my own garden, use solar power, and I would be in hog heaven.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 4:40 am to bamarep
90 is way to high. 40-60 percent I would imagine
Posted on 10/13/17 at 4:53 am to vodkacop
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This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 4:58 am
Posted on 10/13/17 at 5:23 am to Ole Messcort
quote:
What the hell
people lived without electricity for thousands of years
Yes, but they never had electricity in the first place and their economies weren't built around it. For one, their populations were more sparse and agricultural. Cities weren't nearly as large and congested as they are now.
People used outhouses and dug wells. I think we could manage the outhouses OK, but we'd still have to be careful about diseases. No anti-biotics are going to be produced without electricity, so you'll have to ensure you stay as sanitary as possible. That's going to be more difficult without soaps and alcohols, etc.
As for the wells, that would be difficult too. There would be water shortages and most people would resort to drinking out of streams (and perhaps boiling it) and hoping for the best. Boiling will kill most pathogens, but it's time and labor intensive. You'd need fire to do it, and that takes firewood. And the larger the amount of water, the more energy it takes to boil it, etc..
Going back to farming for a minute: How many people would be able to farm without electric or gas powered farm equipment? And even the ones that could do it, how would they feed all the people in the cities? Their crop yields would be nothing like they are with modern irrigation, pesticides, and specialized equipment. They wouldn't be able to scale their operations up to export food to the cities.
I think the 90% figure is way off, but I do think tens of millions would die. We'd probably see the elderly go first. No AC in the summer would kill many of them off. And many of them would die from basic bacterial infections that could be easily controlled with medicines that can no longer be produced. Elderly people have weaker immune systems and they would be dying of all kinds of basic stuff that is easily controlled when the grid is working. So most of us would probably be saying goodbye to grandma and grandpa.
Furthermore, more women would die in childbirth (just like the old days). More infants would die (just like the old days). If you get cancer, you're fricked. If you have a heart attack, you're fricked. Hell breaking a bone could frick you depending on how bad it is.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 6:24 am to bamarep
quote:...and more importantly, shutting down tigerdroppings.com
Congress warned that NoKo could take out power grid, killing 90% of Americans
We need to take Rocketman out this instant!
Posted on 10/13/17 at 7:52 am to bamarep
It's best to be prepared to take care of yourself for long periods of time.
I'm stocked and ready.
I'm stocked and ready.
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