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re: One Second After & EMP Attack
Posted on 1/7/19 at 2:38 pm to bamarep
Posted on 1/7/19 at 2:38 pm to bamarep
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The point of the book is how to prepare for it when it happens.
I enjoyed the book quite a bit.
But, I didn't learn how to "prepare for it" from that book. I learned I'll eat a bullet quickly. frick that kind of "living"
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Posted on 1/7/19 at 2:38 pm to DeltaDoc
I listened to One Second After on audio during a long arse drive for work. The next few days were a bit of anxiety overload ...lol
Posted on 1/7/19 at 2:49 pm to DeltaDoc
quote:My family would be easy to locate, even with zero forms of electronic communications or phones. And we have several places to weather the storm if needed.
It will make you think about how you even locate your family, let alone find a safe place and survive in that place.
If any of you can't say the same, you should consider a process to get to where you can say the same.
I'm no rich dude either. Middle class, blue collar, living barely above paycheck to paycheck. But I'm an outdoorsman and a survivor, and have taught my family the same skills. Between that and connections/ability to barter and trade with close friends and family, we'll be ok for some time.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 2:54 pm to tarzana
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Why would anyone try a very difficult and costly EMP pulse attack on the US when they can take down electrical grids with a Stuxnet-type immobilising hack software?
That may have been an actual possibility even five years ago, but not now.
Most of the US grid has been hardened far beyond the ability of a large-scale virus-based attack succeeding.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 2:58 pm to TigerAxeOK
I live in a largely lawless city in the South. I work in one area and have kids and a wife in two other areas.
If an EMP occurred like in this book, it’d kill my truck and my wife’s ride. This is not a place to walk home in a presumably chaotic event.
I have guns like I have wrinkles, but I don’t go to work with an AR.
As stated, getting my family together, and then getting out of town to land I own would be extremely difficult, if not impossible for me as I sit here today.
If an EMP occurred like in this book, it’d kill my truck and my wife’s ride. This is not a place to walk home in a presumably chaotic event.
I have guns like I have wrinkles, but I don’t go to work with an AR.
As stated, getting my family together, and then getting out of town to land I own would be extremely difficult, if not impossible for me as I sit here today.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:04 pm to Centinel
A virus really hasn't been on the radar so much as either an EMP or a decentralized widespread attack on infrastructure by Muslims.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:04 pm to DeltaDoc
Nice read but not realistic because the book never mentioned nuclear power plant meltdowns. All the doom prepares never really mention it either
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:04 pm to DeltaDoc
Preplan baw.
Have a meeting place designated beforehand. In your case it sounds like it would be difficult but you can't not try. Only a fraction of the population is even aware of such an event, much less prepared for one. ANYTHING you do will put you light years ahead of anyone else. In the first few hours, people would be in "snatch me some Jordans" mode. That's a pretty good window to get your family to a central place and take it from there.
Have a meeting place designated beforehand. In your case it sounds like it would be difficult but you can't not try. Only a fraction of the population is even aware of such an event, much less prepared for one. ANYTHING you do will put you light years ahead of anyone else. In the first few hours, people would be in "snatch me some Jordans" mode. That's a pretty good window to get your family to a central place and take it from there.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:16 pm to DeltaDoc
Yeah, it’s crazy terrifying.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:30 pm to tarzana
It's not just the grid. Every electrical device would be fried. Radio, telephone, tv, cars, cash registers, banks, credit cards, medical devices etc. Think about it.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:40 pm to TigerGyp
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Think about it.
Nope, because an EMP attack is about the dumbest idea out there. It really just is not possible to achieve without invoking a MAD response. Only a nuclear country could attempt it and even then you are down to 2 possible countries in Russia and China. NK is not capable.
No terrorist cell is going to be able to achieve it. They might be able to piece together a dirty bomb or small nuke to blow up a city, but they are not detonating a 1MT device over central USA launched by an ICBM.
A biological attack on America is more plausible than an EMP attack.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:48 pm to Big Scrub TX
Help me here, serious.
Risk, something with harmful effect
Negative risk,,something not likely to have harmful effect
outlying risk, something out of the normal types of risk
negative outlying risk, risk out of normal types of risk, not likely to have harmful effect?
Serious query, trying to understand negative outlying risk.
Risk, something with harmful effect
Negative risk,,something not likely to have harmful effect
outlying risk, something out of the normal types of risk
negative outlying risk, risk out of normal types of risk, not likely to have harmful effect?
Serious query, trying to understand negative outlying risk.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:51 pm to DeltaDoc
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It will make you think about how you even locate your family
I think checking at home would be a good first step
Posted on 1/7/19 at 3:51 pm to BugAC
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One Second After & EMP Attack
All you city boys kiss your arse your wife and your kids goodbye...... Jesus somewhere there is Hank Jr song
Posted on 1/7/19 at 4:02 pm to DarthRebel
My understanding, admittedly infantile on this subject, is that there is not a need for an ICBM. A few old Scuds launched off of barges off the pacific, gulf and Atlantic coasts simultaneously could do the trick.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 4:08 pm to DeltaDoc
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I’m sure it’s been mentioned on here ...
Yeah, you could say that. The first time I posted about it was on the OT board probably four or five years ago not long after the book came out and it was given to me while my family and I were camping up on Black Mountain (yearly trip for decades) with friends and family.
It's a great book ... and so are the two sequel books which are out and can be downloaded on Kindel.
We regularly have prepping discussions on the OT. You should get involved. It's 2019 ... keep adding to your preps. Never stop adding to your preps. January is add to your preps month in my family when we take advantage of sales, order new heirloom seeds, upgraded technology and add more Faraday Cage storage space.
But yeah, it's a good book.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 4:18 pm to DeltaDoc
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A few old Scuds launched off of barges off the pacific, gulf and Atlantic coasts simultaneously could do the trick.
Nope.
That article linked on the first page by someone really is good at explaining it.
Yes it could impact cities to even state size areas, but not national outage. The size of the warhead and elevation needed are related.
Atmospheric EMP bursts having nationwide impact is also theoretic, since they have never really tested that scenario.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 4:22 pm to DarthRebel
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since they have never really tested that scenario.
That we know about. It could explain North Korea.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 4:32 pm to DeltaDoc
somehow, my fiance's dad road in a limo with the head general/colonel (whatever they are) at ft. rucker and he asked him if all the money we spend on the military is worth it.
his response:
"we own the skies."
kinda makes you think. granted, i don't REALLY know what that means.
his response:
"we own the skies."
kinda makes you think. granted, i don't REALLY know what that means.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 4:37 pm to DeltaDoc
If terrorists would be so kind as to EMP the Silicon Valley filth that'd be ideal.
This post was edited on 1/7/19 at 4:39 pm
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