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re: What would you do if the grid went down.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:10 am to bhtigerfan
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:10 am to bhtigerfan
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The people who take meds for serious heart disease, anti-rejection drugs, dialysis, and diabetes would be in serious trouble.
What about erectile disfunction?
Asking for a friend.
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:11 am to rickyh
Starve, or die of a treatable illness or injury, like nearly everyone else on this thread.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:14 am to Scruffy
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If it really came down to it, it would look like the scene in This Is The End where they have 1 Milky Way, eggs, bacon, and liquor.
Those college aged kids would be F'ed!
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:17 am to Scruffy
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It was happy and fun until winter when food and supplies dwindled.
In a large group, more enemies from within than from without. Its the guy next to you that you have to watch, and there's a bunch of them.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:22 am to shel311
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Those college aged kids would be F'ed!
100%
Even more if it’s EMP induced.
They would have no clue how to get home from BR to Lafayette.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
From a power outage? People are describing the End Days. If the devil and demons emerge, finding food and water are not my primary concern. Absent that, society and government carry on.
If we are hit with an EMP, we are at war. I'm not hiding in the woods. I'm joining the local guard and preparing to defend the country, until we are ready to counterstrike.
If it's a natural disaster, I'm volunteering to assist where I can and joining the government agencies to rebuild and establish new services. I'm thinking that is what almost all of us would do.
If we are hit with an EMP, we are at war. I'm not hiding in the woods. I'm joining the local guard and preparing to defend the country, until we are ready to counterstrike.
If it's a natural disaster, I'm volunteering to assist where I can and joining the government agencies to rebuild and establish new services. I'm thinking that is what almost all of us would do.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:24 am to RogerTheShrubber
seriously....its like some of yall have never been a couple weeks without power after a hurricane. its laughable scenerios yall come up with
like i asked yesterday....what event is knocking out the whole worlds grid for months? because the situations yall are talking about....thats what it would take.
really only plausable event is an extreme pandemic that is contagious as all hell through the air, is stable in all environments and is 90+ percent deadly.
so essentially the plot of "The Last Ship"
other than that....it doesnt happen. even solar flairs(other than the 1 huge event that we have found in historical data) only knocks out power for parts of the world for 4-6 weeks. EMP....same
i did 6 weeks without power after laura....didnt see any social breakdown with roving gangs like yall are talking about. :lol:
like i asked yesterday....what event is knocking out the whole worlds grid for months? because the situations yall are talking about....thats what it would take.
really only plausable event is an extreme pandemic that is contagious as all hell through the air, is stable in all environments and is 90+ percent deadly.
so essentially the plot of "The Last Ship"
other than that....it doesnt happen. even solar flairs(other than the 1 huge event that we have found in historical data) only knocks out power for parts of the world for 4-6 weeks. EMP....same
i did 6 weeks without power after laura....didnt see any social breakdown with roving gangs like yall are talking about.
:lol:Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:28 am to lsu777
quote:Localized power outage isn’t the issue and would never be an issue since, well, there are outside individuals and social structures with power.
seriously....its like some of yall have never been a couple weeks without power after a hurricane. its laughable scenerios yall come up with
Food could be shipped in. Clean water was distributed. Medical care can be performed.
A multi-week lack of power or knockout with EMP is a completely different animal.
The authorities cannot dispense information. Food cannot be delivered.
Medical care would not be a thing.
The worst case scenario is nationwide power loss, not localized hurricane power loss.
And on that same note, we saw a small scale occurrence when it happened in NO with Katrina.
This post was edited on 8/25/22 at 10:29 am
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:28 am to bhtigerfan
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The people who take meds for serious heart disease, anti-rejection drugs, dialysis, and diabetes would be in serious trouble.
Yup...wife is on expensive blood thinner...guess alternative would be a crapload of aspirin??
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:31 am to brmark70816
quote:If we're hit with an EMP, you won't be training for war, you will be trying to not die.
If we are hit with an EMP, we are at war. I'm not hiding in the woods. I'm joining the local guard and preparing to defend the country, until we are ready to counterstrike.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:33 am to lsu777
quote:I don't know why you keep asking that. That's the scenario the OP threw out. It's just a message board, it' not so serious that we need to reply that there's no way that could ever happen so we simply can't discuss it!
like i asked yesterday....what event is knocking out the whole worlds grid for months? because the situations yall are talking about....thats what it would take.
How it would happen isn't really relevant here, it's just what would happen if it did.
quote:That's very different than everything going down. Not even close in comparison.
i did 6 weeks without power after laura....didnt see any social breakdown with roving gangs like yall are talking about.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:34 am to shel311
quote:Exactly.
If we're hit with an EMP, you won't be training for war, you will be trying to not die.
How will anyone set up a local guard when there are no useable communication methods?
An EMP knocks all of that out.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:38 am to shel311
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You have a 3 month food supply for yourself.
It dwindles to nothing once your neighbors find out.
Most homes aren’t prepared for a severe storm, let alone have enough food for a few weeks.
The minute they note that you have and they don’t have, your life will be in danger.
You folks watch too much apocalypse TV.
Could that happen down the road if someone's kid is about to die of starvation? Sure.
But you dudes post like 3 days into the grid going down, your neighbors are going to turn into rabid killers to get to your stash, and there will be 10 different gangs of 50 people just looking to rape and kill everyone like it's The Walking Dead, and that's just silly. 99.9% of neighbors will be banding together, and that alone will help prolong your chances of survival. And yes, while even neighbors in your group can go rogue, that's not happening right away.
I'm glad some, hopefully many, of you think this way.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:41 am to Cajun75
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Yup...wife is on expensive blood thinner...guess alternative would be a crapload of aspirin??
FYI
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Willow bark contains salicylic acid, which is the active ingredient in aspirin. If you can find a willow tree, then you can use its bark to make yourself a cup of willow bark tea.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:45 am to lsu777
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i did 6 weeks without power after laura....didnt see any social breakdown with roving gangs like yall are talking about.
This is silly.
You did 6 weeks after Laura because you still had enough trustworthy communications to know that Laura was isolated to about a 200 square mile area and the rest of the country was just fine and sending help, linemen and food/water/supplies.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:55 am to Scruffy
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Exactly.
How will anyone set up a local guard when there are no useable communication methods?
An EMP knocks all of that out.
no it doesnt. an emp only knocks out about 15-20% of cars exposed and thats max, most show 90% of late model cars make it. unless its a fiberglass body car...it has greater than 90% chance of making it.
emp and solar blast attack longer wiring and many things have shields now.
example...the NuScale nuclear reactors are resistant to emp blast and most other nuclear plants will be within next 18-24 months
also according the hEMP study on the effects of an emp things like watches and cell phone and other small electronics would survive.
in other words you are just making shite up like hollywood.
like i said, even a carrington event only knocks out the grid for a couple weeks and it would not be the whole world.
as far as the comment about Katrina and what happened....you would see some of that in cities if they were abandoned like that, but thats about it. Dont see the looting during Katrina if the city wasnt mostly abandoned.
like i said before...the op gave a scenerio but its based on hollywood bullshite not real life.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:55 am to lsu777
quote:What did you eat during that time? What/where did your neighbors and others in your town eat during that time?
i did 6 weeks without power after laura....didnt see any social breakdown with roving gangs like yall are talking about.
If you or someone else in your town had a medical condition that required meds refills or even an emergency type of visit, what did you or what do you think they did during those 6 weeks?
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:56 am to lsu777
quote:Fun Police!!!
like i said before...the op gave a scenerio but its based on hollywood bullshite not real life.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:58 am to rickyh
Big city people would be fricked. Too many people and there is little "community" so there would be the every man for himself mentality.
In smaller communities near rural areas, it would be different. I think there would be more situations where people work together. I got enough squirrels and birds in my backyard that I wouldn't starve. Even running out of ammo I could still use traps for squirrels.
Will we still have natural gas? If so I would be ale to cook, boil water, etc. I have access to chickens and rabbits. I have a bayou close to me so fishing is also an option, hunting deer, hogs will be an option. I could trade chicken eggs for things other people are growing.
In smaller communities near rural areas, it would be different. I think there would be more situations where people work together. I got enough squirrels and birds in my backyard that I wouldn't starve. Even running out of ammo I could still use traps for squirrels.
Will we still have natural gas? If so I would be ale to cook, boil water, etc. I have access to chickens and rabbits. I have a bayou close to me so fishing is also an option, hunting deer, hogs will be an option. I could trade chicken eggs for things other people are growing.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 11:01 am to Meauxjeaux
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This is silly.
You did 6 weeks after Laura because you still had enough trustworthy communications to know that Laura was isolated to about a 200 square mile area and the rest of the country was just fine and sending help, linemen and food/water/supplies.
no what is silly is the scenerios yall are making up and buying into hollywood hype around an emp blast
facts-emp or carrington type or major GMP would not knock out most cars, cell phones and other small electronic devices
facts- much of the grid is vulenerable to those blast but its becoming less and less through upgrades
myth: an emp blast would end the world as we know it
go read the studies linked in the wiki article
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