re: So I watched the Julia Roberts Movie "Leave the World Behind" - MY TINFOIL HAT IS NOW ON

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I'm on the side that an EMP strike will not be as catastrophic as many people believe it would be. Still would be bad

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Agreed. 15 two person teams with fertilizer explosives hitting 15 or so specific specific relatively unprotected substations at the same time puts 99% of the country back into the dark ages for a minimum of 6 months, years depending on if shorts cause infrastructure destroying wildfires around the country.

That's the big fear.

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Obama's produce

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Hard pass lol

The black daughter was super racist in that movie. Very similar to big Mike

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I think it is a huge total frick YOU AMERICA that they were a big part of a movie showing our country getting nuked

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You expected different?

His hatred of this country was on display his entire campaign and presidency.

This scenario can also happen from a solar flare.

There have been many learned people expressing their concerns and warning Americans to prepare for an EMP attack or a naturally occurring coronal mass ejection for decades. Either event would likely severely damage/destroy the US power grid.

The US has $34 trillion of debt, all that incredible debt and the government has not built out and upgraded the power grid or hardened the power grid against EMP attacks, coronal mass ejection or sabotage.....the US depends on foreign countries for a shite ton of their power grid hardware/transformers/components.

I honestly think the tyrants would rather the world burn than to give up power to us. They hate us that badly.

Movies like this have been done before so this is just a rehash of previous hashes.


The best one was the one with Wolverines called Red Dawn in 1984 with Patrick Swayze. It is hundreds of miles better than this netflik trash.

Also this end of days trash talk has been around since Sodmom and Gomorrah , the Book of Revelations , and Thomas Malthus. People love to talk about this horse shyte and it makes money.

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Adopt the ages-old Boy Scout motto, and "Be Prepared".

It's actually very cheap and easy to store up rice and beans in fully sealed mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. Just buy a little at a time every time you go grocery shopping or have to stop by the grocery store mid-week because you ran out of milk. Then, store the Mylar bags in preferably airtight containers that protect from rodents and keep in a cool, dark place. Stuff lasts for 25+ years. I use Tidy Cats litter pails because they're rectangular in shape, stackable, and you can maximize storage space when compared to round buckets.

For water, have a means of setting up a long term purification system, and also short term. Life Straws work well. There's also currently a four-pack of Sawyer MINI water filters on Amazon for $65 that are good for purifying up to 100,000 gallons of water each.

To supplement that, if you have a green thumb and possess even the most rudimentary hunting, fishing and foraging skills, you can hunt/gather to add fillers to your most basic of rice/beans meals. Keep a large quantity of salt in storage as well, as it will be more valuable than gold in a long term SHTF situation. Avoid iodized salt, and instead choose something like Himalayan or sea salt.

Most canned foods, regardless of what the "best by" date says, also have a basically indefinite shelf life as well, as long as the cans are stored at room temperature or lower and not dented/damaged in any way. Turn a spare closet in your home into an extra pantry just for canned goods and mylar-sealed dry goods. Freeze-dried foods are expensive but also have a 25+ year shelf life if sealed properly. If you're O-T Ballin' and have the spare coin, invest in a Harvest Right freeze dryer, and you can freeze dry and package entire meals in a mylar bag, and then all you have to do is rehydrate them with hot water for an instant meal that tastes as good as the day you prepared it. It's also a very good idea to store envelopes of heirloom fruit and vegetable seeds for planting in the future.

Combine all this with plenty of ammo, and a heightened vigilance and sense of awareness of your surroundings, and you're off to a good start. It's best (especially if you live in an urban area) to have all the above items stored at a bugout location either on the fringes of civilization or in the middle of BFE.

Society and the US is not prepared for a grid crash or an EMP event... But you can be, with minimal effort and some studying.