re: Congress warned that NoKo could take out power grid, killing 90% of Americans

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Oh and for all you baws in Alabama that are all of a sudden going to live off the land, good luck: You might garden but without non-GMO seed that is one season, not to mention done by hand. Everyone else is going to be hunting and fishing. You are walking everywhere you go. How are you going to store food? Where are you getting water?

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Two words:

Feral Hogs

There are enough of them on my farm to feed half of Alabama for a month. And those little bastards breed at a very high rate.

The 90% number probably takes into account the highly populated areas. If an EMP were to strike say the west coast I could see HUGE numbers of dead people in Los Angeles etc. First those people don't know how to fish, hunt, make river water drinkable etc. Grocery stores would run out of food in a day or two. All the interstates are blocked with cars whose computers are fried. Airports are down. Food shipments pretty much stop. Violence erupts and many die from that. Those that survive die off as food and water becomes scarce. Dead bodies and untreated sewage cause disease to explode. Diarrhea, Cholera, and Dysentery move rapidly through the survivors.

With most of the people either starving or diseased who will clear the cars from the roads, fix the water treatment plants, deliver the groceries?

It would get bad and stay bad for a long time.