Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Not if it were launched by terrorists.

Though does any terrorist group have such technology? Also as someone who lives in a rural area I am highly unlikely to be impacted by any EMP let alone a terrorist sourced variety. It ignores the reality of prepping for something that is likely and high impact. So while global warming is looking like 100% likely and the impact significant it does not happen materially in my area during my lifetime though I am still trying to prep for it as temperature rises are something to be prepared for.

Having the planet destroyed by a passing death star is also beyond my budget so not worth worrying about. It is also highly unlikely. So at this moment EMP is not only highly unlikely and only slightly higher in probability if you were an anti-government agitator living in a country where the government had such technology.

Prepping is about mitigating risks in daily life which are not only possible and but probable in a time frame such as power cuts. EMP is not only improbable but if you are prepared will anyone else be? If you are the only one with a working TV or radio but there is no power and networks of any kind what use is it?

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Frugalsod wrote: »

Though does any terrorist group have such technology?

Who knows.

In August 2001, you might well have asked "does any terrorist group have the ability to take down two skyscrapers?"

Also as someone who lives in a rural area I am highly unlikely to be impacted by any EMP let alone a terrorist sourced variety.

Actually, your location (urban or rural) has no bearing on the effects of an EMP attack.

If you are within line of sight, from the point of detonation, you will be affected.

An EMP stretches as far as the horizon, in all directions.

If you are the only one with a working TV or radio but there is no power and networks of any kind what use is it?

After an EMP attack, having a working TV will be way down on your list of priorities.

Water, food, sanitation, cooking, heating and (if dependent on them) obtaining and storing medications, will be your immediate priorities.

armyknife

Colour me sceptical about the possibility of a terrorist organisation acquiring and successfully operating a large ballistic missile* together with a stolen thermonuclear warhead.

Alternatively it's probably widespread thermonuclear war along with the collapse of civilization, so I'm not keen on 'surviving' that and to exist in it's aftermath.


Personally I think Cameron and Osborne are the 'clear and present danger'** many of us should worry about and prep for.




* something larger than and with a greater range than a Scud missile, think IRBM +

** to use a rather silly expression, popular today.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

After an EMP attack, having a working TV will be way down on your list of priorities.

Which was kind of my point. Also simply unplugging everything and turning everything off will give a reasonable level of protection against EMP as most devices simply do not have enough cabling to induce a dangerous electric current that will fry your device.

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Water, food, sanitation, cooking, heating and (if dependent on them) obtaining and storing medications, will be your immediate priorities.

Yes but these are all good all round preps regardless of any event. I also use these as part of a day to day cost balancing prep. Some items will be expensive one month and much cheaper another. So this allows me to save money on things that I will use anyway.

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Totally agree ARMYKNIFE I'll strive to keep me and mine going through an awful lot if there is the least prospect of some sort of liveable life after the storm dies down but nuclear war? nope, there would be no point in doing all the prepping if all that waited at the end of it would be an uncomfortable and lingering death from radiation poisoning.

Frugalsod

armyknife wrote: »

Colour me sceptical about the possibility of a terrorist organisation acquiring and successfully operating a large ballistic missile* together with a stolen thermonuclear warhead.

Alternatively it's probably widespread thermonuclear war along with the collapse of civilization, so I'm not keen on 'surviving' that and to exist in it's aftermath.


Personally I think Cameron and Osborne are the 'clear and present danger'** many of us should worry about and prep for.

I agree a major nuclear war is not worth surviving. Maybe I would think differently if my personal circumstances were different.

Personally I think the banks are still the biggest threat to us all but I will accept that the decisions of prize idiots at the head of government can make things better or worse depending on what they decide to do in response to any crisis.

Butterfly_Brain

Heads up Wilko have their camping gear at half price, picked up a couple of mummy sleeping bags for £5, four clicky torches ( The ones you charge with a switch on the side IYKWIM) £1 each
Foil backed rolls for under sleeping bags £2 each
single blow up beds £5 each, double £7.50, ponchos 40p each and lots of other stuff.

Forgot they also have 2 man tents for £5 and four man tents for £10 only 1000 hydrostat though.

I am going to buy some more gas cannisters and another cooking stove in B&M tomorrow while they still have them

mardatha

S is def going to HTF any minute in the Mard house. The RV is building up two Ikea units...

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There is a spare room here for you MAR if you can get here and it's for as long as you need it too pet......If I were you I'd barricade myself in a comfy room, put on some music and read a book for the forseeable future!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

mardatha

He has just found that he has put the drawer bottoms on the back...
*gets under table*