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I brought this up in another thread...a request was to start a discussion on it.
So...are you worried about this shit? Is yes, what the hell is you plan post EMP, biological outbreak, zombie attack?
Discuss...
Maximus said:I have a friend who is a prepper. He has a basement full of supplies, generator, water purifier, etc, in the event of economic collapse or the grid going down for a month...or longer. He also has a lot of weapons. He has them for self-defense. If the grid were to go down for a significant period of time, there will be lawlessness and utter chaos. If a pack of goons sees that his house has power from generators, he says they're probably going to want to see what else he has...he wants to keep them out. If no one ever bothers him, he's no threat to them. He just wants to be able to defend his family, home and survive.
Maximus said:He's far from crazy. He's not sitting in a bunker with a helmet on and a gun in his hands waiting for the end of the world. He's just got extra water, food, medicine and supplies to last a few months....and weapons to guard it. He's a very successful and very intelligent guy. He realizes that there are people out there thinking of ways to sabotage our power grid and water supply. He realizes that it wouldn't take much to collapse our economy...we're in VERY bad shape. He also knows that hackers and weapons are getting smarter and more sophisticated.
An Electromagnetic Pulse would knock us back to the 1800's...it's probably the biggest threat to America that no one wants to talk about. It may come from a solar storm, a high altitide bomb detonated above the middle of the country or from a Chinese sattelite. An EMP would fry all electronics, cars wouldn't drive, no internet...nothing at all that requires our grid would function anymore. Let that sink in...
Wall Street Journal said:No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn't be able to harvest crops and distributors wouldn't be able to get food to supermarkets. Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a "giant continental time machine" that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s.
Crazy is acting like you're never going to have a major interuption in your power or have to survive a disaster for a few weeks or months. It's not a matter of if, but when, for some readers on this board...maybe even all of us. So I dont see the harm or craziness in preparing.
Maybe this needs its own thread...
Maximus Shrugged
So...are you worried about this shit? Is yes, what the hell is you plan post EMP, biological outbreak, zombie attack?
Discuss...
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