Preparing for Surviving Catastrophic Events
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Main subject preparing for EMP Event, also benefits of doing
this will help the local communities prepare for other Natural or Human
Caused Catastrophic and Emergency Events.
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How to
Prepare for Surviving a Future EMP or Electromagnetic Pulse.
These preparations will also have many benefits to the
communities that prepare for these Catastrophes.
A Major Super Solar Storm can have similar effects upon our
electrical grids and devices we use today, normally an EMP is caused by a
Nuclear Device, when exploded in the Atmosphere it will cause Catastrophic
Failure to the Electrical grids and most if not all new electronic devices. The
pulse will Fry the circuits in the boards and has the possibilities of bringing
the Modern era of America to a standstill or in other words returning us to the
1800’s in a matter of 1 second.
The threat has been documented greatly and in detail by
these reports.
“Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United
States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack”
Volume 1: Executive Report 2004
(This is a detailed summery of the causes, problems,
solutions, preventions for an EMP event.)
“Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United
States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack”
Critical National Infrastructures. April 2008
(This is some 200
pages of detailed ways to prepare for an event, and problems caused by a EMP
Event)
Both these Reports
can be obtained at no charge, down loaded from this web site.
The EMP Commission was established pursuant to title XIV of
the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as
enacted into law by Public Law 106-398; 114 Stat. 1654A-345). Duties of the EMP
Commission include assessing:
The nature and
magnitude of potential high-altitude EMP threats to the United States from all
potentially hostile states or non-state actors that have or could acquire
nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles enabling them to perform a high-altitude
EMP attack against the United States within the next 15 years;
The vulnerability
of United States military and especially civilian systems to an EMP attack,
giving special attention to vulnerability of the civilian infrastructure as a
matter of emergency preparedness;
The capability of
the United States to repair and recover from damage inflicted on United States
military and civilian systems by an EMP attack; and
The feasibility
and cost of hardening select military and civilian systems against EMP attack.
The Commission is charged with identifying any steps it
believes should be taken by the United States to better protect its military
and civilian systems from EMP attack.
Multiple reports and briefings associated with this effort
have been produced by the EMP Commission including an Executive Report (PDF,
578KB) and a Critical National Infrastructures Report (PDF, 7MB) describing
findings and recommendations.
The EMP Commission was reestablished via the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to continue its efforts to monitor,
investigate, make recommendations, and report to Congress on the evolving
threat to the United States from electromagnetic pulse attack resulting from
the detonation of a nuclear weapon or weapons at high altitude.
Commission Staff
Prevention / Repair /
Surviving Emergencies - Catastrophes
Now I would like to
focus on what we can do as communities and individuals to prepare for major
catastrophes, the cause EMP and effects are very well documented above.
Preparing to Avoid an EMP Catastrophe will have many
benefits to the Individuals, Towns, Cities, Counties, States, and Nations that
take this threat seriously and take the time and measures to Prepare.
Whether the Emergency is a EMP, Solar Storm, Natural Events
such as Earth Quakes, Tornadoes, Flooding, Land Slides, Extreme Weather Conditions,
Tsunami, Fire, Hurricanes, or Economical events such as extreme unemployment
for whatever reason, National emergencies such as War, Banking & Financial
Collapse, Collapse of National Dollar, or other political or economic
catastrophe that will have negative effects upon our communities as we
currently see around the world taking place. The list could be added to I am
sure.
The idea here is to prepare to save as many lives and
communities as possible in the time of an Emergency. So the items spoken of as
results of EMP can be prepared for will help in many other ways as well.
Overview of Emergency issues.
Protecting Critical Components
of the Infrastructure.
Maintaining the Capability to
Monitor and Evaluate the Conditions of your Critical Infrastructures.
Electric Power Infrastructures –
your local towns do you have adequate backups and replacement needs to repair
them so you can continue to have power. No power = no water, no sanitation,
etc.
Telecommunications- EMP
will delete most if not all communications in the affected areas. Is there
backup preparations for communications methods that will survive EMP and other
events.
Banking and Finance –
There may be No access to people’s savings and accounts and investments. All
commerce based on the paper dollar could end for a time, could result in
Bartering or other methods until it can be repaired.
Water and Food - When the people run out of Food and Water you
will find that the human instinct to survive will create mobs, riots, roving
militant groups or armies who will take from others to survive. This Chaos must
be prevented before it happens by taking away the Fear of Starvation, loss of
Hope. This is done by individual and community preparedness to the best of our
abilities. Many are not in the financial position to save any money or food and
water item’s, we must find a way to prepare to help those who will need it.
Some who do prepare may not have access to their preparations. They may lose
their food storage in a disaster and will need our help.
Emergency Services – An
EMP will delete communication between those who need help and those who can
give it. Transportation maybe effected, 911 Won’t Work, Preparations must be
made and the people made aware that if they go to their Town / City designated place there will be emergency
communication and medical help available at these local places they may have to
walk to. Plan for it.
Space Systems – GPS will
be gone if an EMP or Major Solar Storm hits them. So make sure everyone knows
their local area’s and can use a compass and map.
Transportation – Since
most modern vehicles of all types have computers and microchips an EMP would
drastically DELETE the ability of movement by eliminating most transportation.
We must be prepared with older vehicles that would not be
affected by EMP, Emergency, Law enforcement, Farm, Freight – Semi Trucks etc.,
and personal vehicles the more the better.
Our communities are having Emergency Preparedness meetings
and exercises and planning more often this is good. Some of the items mentioned
above by the nature of being prepared are covered to a degree. However most
still depend on the ability of having power sources and other normal modern
tools being useable.
We must also prepare for the event of Not being able to use
our modern devices and tools to help survive as a community and individuals if
the worst case scenario of an EMP should
happen.
Power Supply
Basic infrastructures if protected to the best of our
ability could survive an EMP, if not we should plan for non-modern equipment to
use to creating Power Supply.
Coal fired Engines, Water / Hydro systems, Steam Engines,
Diesel Generators that do not have computer electronics to run. And further
older style of Power generation systems.
If we can keep the power ON then that will prevent may
people from death due to loss of power.
All medical facilities will need backups that will be EMP
proof, including Public and Private such as hospitals, clinics, rest homes,
etc.
Sheriff and Police will need power as well for
communications.
Realize Cell phones, Internet will be lost permanently. So
any radios that may work – most likely the older tube style ham radios, or pre
microchip style hand held walkies talkies and other styles.
Stores with freezers will need power, if not then the frozen
foods must be used first so as not to waste them.
And many more problems with loss of power most Emergency
Preparedness Groups are familiar with.
Emergency Services
911 Won’t work
Ambulances, Rescue Vehicles, Fire, Police, etc. Won’t work unless they are of an older non computerized
style of vehicle. And even some of these
may need to be restored, repaired in order to work, cylindroids, batteries and
such electronic parts that maybe fried by an EMP pulse.
Medical tools may not Work, our modern rescue devices are
computerized and may be destroyed by EMP Pulse, so be prepared to work manually
for everything needed.
Medical supplies that need power to keep at certain
temperatures will need to have a form of back up storage, if the power goes
out.
In case of EMP many on life support systems may perish
almost immediately, breathing devices, heart, etc. Some pace makers will be
shut down by EMP as well.
Many Dangers to the medical community after an EMP.
Transportation
As just mentioned above there will be issues with most of
our transportation vehicles.
Since most modern
vehicles of all types have computers and microchips an EMP would drastically
DELETE the ability of movement by eliminating most transportation.
We must be prepared with older vehicles that would not be
affected by EMP, Emergency, Law enforcement, Farm, Freight – Semi Trucks etc.,
and personal vehicles the more the better.
Vehicles from the mid 1970’s and back to the early 1900’s
will be about the only vehicles that will work, and be able to be repaired if
affected by a few parts getting fried by an EMP Pulse. So will be good to have
the vehicles and the spare parts around. Every town should have some.
Older bus’s or trucks will be needed to retrieve people
stranded on the Interstate and other roads in our area and bring them to
safety.
Also having older semi-trucks that will work will allow us
to remove all trailers from their stranded places to a collection point in the
towns closest to them, in case the
contents will be needed to assist in the survival of the communities, or stored
safe until civilization is restored on a national bases again.
Banking and Finance
There may be No
access to people’s savings and accounts and investments. All commerce based on
the paper dollar could end for a time, could result in Bartering or other
methods until it can be repaired.
Expect a trade or voucher system to be developed if the
National currency is deleted during such a huge event.
Water and Food
When the people run out of Food and Water you will find that
the human instinct to survive will create mobs, riots, roving militant groups
or armies who will take from others to survive. This Chaos must be prevented
before it happens by taking away the Fear of Starvation, loss of Hope. This is
done by individual and community preparedness to the best of our abilities.
Many are not in the financial position to save any money or food and water
items, we must find a way to prepare to help those who will need it. Some who
do prepare may not have access to their preparations. They may lose their food
storage in a disaster and will need our help.
Martial Law will be needed to prevent mobs from overrunning
Stores in the county and towns, in a panic for food and other items.
If the leadership in the communities need to do this it will
provide a means by which to distribute the remaining food stuffs in an orderly
fashion for the survival of all not just a few.
Also be aware some will desire to poach peoples livestock to
food, this must be prevented as best we can.
Good preparations and communications to the communities
about where and how much food and water items are stored due to preparations
this will help ease the threat of mobs and looters.
I will spend some time on this issue here.
Food Preparedness
I have
seen today were some communities are using Green houses to grow and feed their
neighborhoods in the Milwaukee area, they produce a few millions of tons of
garden and other food each year.
http://www.growingpower.org/ They have Youtube video’s called “Food
Love: Growing Power (Part 1 of 3) “ of their project as well and offer
educational help to others who would like to learn what they do for their own
community.
The idea is that if the towns and cities and the county help
make sure all become so self-sufficient in their area’s around the county it
would prevent looting and mob violence.
If Green Houses were established (the number to be
determined by population of the individual area) so that food was Grown year
round then a County and its towns would be able to become self-reliant, and
avoid the starvation times that will happen after an EMP, and other Natural
disasters.
Vacant or unused Farms could be used to grow needed food
stuffs and then either canned or freeze-dried then packaged and stored in
community warehouses for future emergency needs.
Water storage is important, however if power can quickly be
restored throughout the county then it will not be a problem for drinking and
sanitary needs.
Growing for self-reliance as a
community.
This would reap great benefits to the community that learns
this process.
Those who are on Food Stamps, UN-employment, or other needs
who are not able to provide for themselves can use the food items produced and
stored in the community warehouses.
They can also assist in the growing and maintaining of the
production and storage of this food as volunteers as they are on public
assistance or their Church’s assistance already, this would give them the
opportunity to Give Back for the blessings they have and will receive in food
items for them and their families.
So we have a labor force that will volunteer and will be
blessed for it, those unemployed who are able can work as well, giving them a
feeling of working in trade for their assistance given them, many won’t ask for
help out of pride, yet most will trade labor for food, will be psychologically
a positive and good benefit to many.
This will Take care of the food needs in our county, cities,
towns. We won’t need to rely on the Federal Government for Handouts we can do
it ourselves as we become self-sufficient.
This will also bring the communities into more of a closer
relationship, no class warfare or other prejudices as they will be working
together as a group to provide for one another, this will build a great bond
amongst us.
The need for a New Food Cannery building in our area is
there, and future plans to build one, what if the County or City leaders went
into a partnership with the LDS Church to build a larger facility and then help
operate it in a joint venture to assist
everyone in the area. I see this as a win win deal, if it would be feasible.
After Power the Top issues to deal with will be food and
water, shelter, sanitary needs, then survival.
As a community we American’s can pull together to do this if
our egos, pride, differences can be put aside.
We CAN survive if we unite to prepare for Catastrophic Events.
There is much room for suggestions and needs not addressed
here, my contact information below.
Stephen Huls, Monroe , Utah.
Email: hulsitalianplasters@hotmail.com
Preparing for Surviving Catastrophic Events
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Main subject preparing for EMP Event, also benefits of doing
this will help the local communities prepare for other Natural or Human
Caused Catastrophic and Emergency Events.
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Here is one company that is working on protecting your electronics from emp's. Worth checking out.
Tech Protect, LLC is an organization dedicated to protecting
electronic components from an EMP. Many people don’t realize how
damaging an EMP attack can be. Tech Protect came about by understanding
how to protect ourselves from such an attack.
In simple terms, that I can understand, an Electro Magnetic Pulse is a
release of energy or current that is trying to find a way to “ground”.
As it races through the atmosphere towards earth (because of the
magnetic field around the earth), it travels along the “path of least
resistance” to ground. Electric overhead power lines act like antennas
to attract the current because of its long wave length. The
electromagnetic current that enters our power distribution system is
expected to damage or destroy transformers and equipment meant to
regulate the power lines. All other devices that are exposed (not stored
in a protective device like a Faraday bag or cage) will also have the
current travel across it’s circuitry and most likely destroyed or damage
it.
Along with common sense ideas and thinking about what is really
important for surviving an EMP Flood, you can protect much of what you
own! Example: A few of my first thoughts were around communication and
how to protect our hand held walkie-talkies and cell phones. If this
takes place and the cell towers are down for months, I do NOT want to be
in line at the cell store waiting on back order for a new phone. My
chain saw motor spark plug is driven by an electronic ignition system. I
do NOT want to go into a major extended power outage without a chain
saw. I need to protect it. I also need transportation of some kind and
something that will work with me to accomplish routine tasks like a 4
wheeler, boat motor, truck, car, etc. All use electronic ignition
systems! (See list of items below of what may be affected by EMP). A
Faraday Box is designed to protect again just such an occurrence as an
EMP. The military uses this along with other “hardening” practices to
protect against the potential EMP Flood we’ve been discussing. For us at
home, this in many cases just isn’t feasible on our budgets or
technical expertise. That’s why I’m introducing a less expensive EMP
Bag, called the Tech Protect Bag to place our at risk items in for
storage. The bag is made of heavy duty Mylar that has a metal alloy
designed into it (aluminum) and a plastic insulating covering that keeps
the current from reaching your sensitive device. A simple zip lock
closing at the top ensures complete enclosure and protection for your
devices. What can and should you protect at home and at the office? See a
starter list contained below. What items do you have in a camper or
cabin you expect to use in an emergency? Remember…. A new way of
thinking. If ye are prepared ye shall not fear…
Hi Steven,
ReplyDeleteGreat post on the effects of an EMP. Very informative! As a fellow Utahn, I find your post hits very close to home! Also, I thought you may find our website interesting. We have a lot of links to articles on EMPs and we also have a product to help protect your critical electronics from the damaging effects of an EMP. www.empbags.com
Thanks!
Jamey