An effective EMP event does not require a huge nuke. A small nuke, detonated at altitude to maximize coverage.. or several small nukes perhaps, could fry every circuit board and computer system. Your "smart phone" would be a brick, TV stations, banks, gas pumps, food stores, cash registers.... the list quickly gets long, because we are now deeply committed to such devices, and have no backup system. Suddenly, your cars do not run, you have no cash, your food in the fridge is rotting, and you can't call 911 because the phone system is fried... cop radios don't work... etc etc etc.... no backup systems in place. What just happened to your personal quality of life, as you now know it?
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:30 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > So you're thinking of a really massive EMP right? Something let off in > the upper atmosphere? > It's hard to an imagine an EMP of that size. > Besides which theres the rest of the world, or are you imagining a > world-wide EMP? > -Curt > > On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 02:23:03 PM EDT, Scott Ritchey via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Which is why I'll never sell my 300SD. But expect many roads to become > impassible with manned checkpoints (where robbers will kill you and steal > your car) and millions of dead modern cars, frozen in place since the event. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:07 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT for our printer expert -- What it's like to fix > linotype, intertype, and other old presses > > Those driving a 240D might survive also. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > >> > >> How would an EMP event cause 90% fatalities? > > > > Instant return to Amish living. No groceries, no gasoline, no natural > gas, no propane, no electricity. > > > > With supply chain disruptions what they are currently, it's difficult > enough to get repair parts, etc. With no supply chain at all, what happens. > This country has an exceedingly thin veneer of civility, and with an EMP > that would be gone. Rural folks, with SKILLS, would fair much better than > urban and suburban folks. They would be decimated in less than a month. It > will/would take a year minimum for any infrastructure to be rebuilt. How > long can one survive with no food/water/medical care? > > > > Even a regional EMP would likely take down much of the US electrical > grid, because it is all interconnected, and interdependent, with the > exception perhaps of Texas. > > > > The Amish would survive. Everyone else, not so much. > > > > > > Rick > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
