EMP threat

[Hessian]

He says "imminent"

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45194

Better load up on canned food now!

 

[Railroad]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45194

Better load up on canned food now!

Aw, don't believe everything you read, Hessian.

 

[ylexot]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45194

Better load up on canned food now!

 

[dustin]

Except for the water issue, I figure we can hold out for at least a month without having to go get anything. I know the first week or two, we'd be eating a lot of great meals - getting all the frozen stuff before it goes bad.

If we were forced to leave for some reason, we could be on the move in less than an hour, driving the lawn tractor and pulling wife and dog in the trailer. Lawn tractor has old-fashioned magneto system - no chips.

I think a sailboat would be best in this situation

 

[Larry Gude]

Rail....

Except for the water issue, I figure we can hold out for at least a month without having to go get anything. I know the first week or two, we'd be eating a lot of great meals - getting all the frozen stuff before it goes bad.

If we were forced to leave for some reason, we could be on the move in less than an hour, driving the lawn tractor and pulling wife and dog in the trailer. Lawn tractor has old-fashioned magneto system - no chips.

...maybe I'm missing something but, if nuclear war starts, where are you and your tractor going and why? If the fallout charts are correct, the entire landmass of the US will be covered with radioactive fallout far in excess of anything you're gonna survive and if you're in a bunker, isn't it highly unlikely the filtration will be adequate even if you could stay underground for, at minimum, several YEARS?

What am I missing?

 

[dustin]

...maybe I'm missing something but, if nuclear war starts, where are you and your tractor going and why? If the fallout charts are correct, the entire landmass of the US will be covered with radioactive fallout far in excess of anything you're gonna survive and if you're in a bunker, isn't it highly unlikely the filtration will be adequate even if you could stay underground for, at minimum, several YEARS?

What am I missing?

I thought we were talking about EMP blast?

That's a far more likely scenario than fallout.

I thougth a nuclear missle detonated in the stratosphere wouldnt have any fallout, but still create enough EMP to take shtuff out :shrug:

 

[Larry Gude]

You're right...

I thought we were talking about EMP blast?

That's a far more likely scenario than fallout.

I thougth a nuclear missle detonated in the stratosphere wouldnt have any fallout, but still create enough EMP to take shtuff out :shrug:

...just after reading all of 2a's nuke data, I started looking at the overall fallout picture. I think it's been stated in here and I agree that we are no where near as vulnerable to an EMP attack as what the article states.

Sorry. I got fixated on a nuke attack and fallout.

 

[2ndAmendment]

Thanks. Ever see The Day After?

Yeah. Have it on tape and DVD. Hollywood ... but sort of real...a little over the top as to the effects. Don't use 100 megaton nukes; defeats the purpose.

 

[2ndAmendment]

...just after reading all of 2a's nuke data, I started looking at the overall fallout picture. I think it's been stated in here and I agree that we are no where near as vulnerable to an EMP attack as what the article states.

Sorry. I got fixated on a nuke attack and fallout.

Other thing Larry is the premise is it is a terrorist attack not a full scale strike from the former Soviets or China. North Korea might be able to hit the western states with one or two, but their technology is unproven, and they would quickly glow in the dark. One or two nukes would be bad enough, but it would not devastate the entire U.S.

I'm actually more worried about a biological attack. One very sick person gets to U.S. soil on a plane or over the border illegally and suddenly we have an epidemic of some strain of something that is resistant to all know antibiotics. The worst thing about this kind of scenario is that "they" don't even have to cross our borders. It could be one of "us" that bring it back from a trip. With modern transportation and a highly mobile population it could get bad very, very quickly.

 

[2ndAmendment]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45194

Better load up on canned food now!

The Israeli intel community is GOOD.
This is good advice.

"If your gut feeling tells you when you walk on to a bus there is something unusual or suspicious, get out and walk away," he said. "You may do it 10 times for no reason, but there will be one time that saves your life. Let your sixth sense direct you."

We have some MREs, some canned stuff, bottled water, and medical stuff in a cache (Yeah. Make fun of me when you need it and don't have it.) and lots of ammo. Better safe than sorry. Rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. It is the old Boy Scout in me.

 

[Triggerfish]

North Korea might be able to hit the western states with one or two, but their technology is unproven, and they would quickly glow in the dark.

Which would PO a lot of it's neighbors since they'd get fallout. Russians. the Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans. I don't think they're going to deny the United States' right to self defense or retataliation but making the whole country glow in the dark would not go over too well.

What may be more likely is a North Korean nuclear attack on Japan with it's 100,000 plus U.S. troops.