EMP Protection

Isolation and a Faraday cage!

First you must disable the thing that detonates.

This subject has been a major concern and discussion since the Manhattan Project. There are pages of threads on CR4® about EMP and about 259,000 results searching Google only, god only knows what the other search engines will find. So with that, I would recommend taking some time devoted only to researching EMP protection and how to apply you new knowledge to what your wanting to protect from Electro-Magnetic-Pulse.

The best is to simply not be there.

Why would you care anyway? Were you planning to strike back?

Yes, eliminate any component that would be mutually influenced by EMP cutting through at right angles.

Put alla you stuff ina garbage can....

...includa uself...

...anna little ones too....

Now I know what my Halloween costume's gonna be.

To be honest if you are close enough to a nuke blast to need to be concerned about the EMP you are also close enough that you likely won't survive it, or at least not for very long, and if you did nothing of value outside your bunker that works with electricity did which makes you basically stranded in an irradiated hell hole of a location where anyone with any degree of survival sense is going to be avoiding for a very very long time.

Personally I would rather be incinerated to ash in a few seconds Vs dying of radiation poisoning/starvation over a period of days to weeks stranded where nothing of value works and that which does is likely too radioactive to be of any good to me any way and no one is going to come looking for me to help me.

Oh well, might as well have a drink....oops, there goes my eyeball, right into my highball....

Tcmtech,

I agree 100%.

I'd rather be vaporized than die a horrible death from radiation poisoning. This is a "survivor" from Hiroshima after the nuclear detonation.

I may not be anywhere near an expert on nuke blasts and survival but everything I have ever been able to read and learn about them and their aftermath tends to give me very strong reasons to suspect that very few preppers have any realistic idea or concepts of what exactly things will be like should their worst nightmares come true.

Horrible, but then mustard gas wouldn't be a lot of fun either, to pick just one.

Incidentally I read an obituary the other day about a guy named Kiroki (or something similar), born in USA to Japanese parents, the only one to fly with the USAF bombing Japan. Died aged 93.

A friend, who was an amateur radio operator, built his shack using a large metal railroad signal enclosure. lightning striking a tree 40 yards away destroyed most of his equipment. A GPS I had in the glove compartment of my car, parked about 50 yards away, was toast.

A vertical strike emits a radiating pattern horizontal to the ground and any conductor at right angles or degrees of, is influenced.

The effects of EMP are unpredictable.

Just before you put head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye, you kiss your appliances goodbye.

Yup, just like I'v posted before,

Closely related to EMP's from nuclear blasts is the effect of severe solar flares, such as the "The Solar Superstorm of July 2012" that missed Earth.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/

"Analysts believe that a direct hit by an extreme CME such as the one that missed Earth in July 2012 could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn't even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps."

Would it disable my car electronics? Every car seems to be run by a computer now. Would it disable older cars with ignition systems but no computer?

I an thinking about how to protect my electronics. I am thinking if I knew it was coming I could put everything into a Faraday cage till it was gone. Would it be enough to wrap everything in aluminum foil? Would it be enough to put everything in a metal garbage can and put the lid on tightly?

Would all cars and trucks be disabled? AS I understand it the internet, electric grid, gas pipelines, land phone system, cell phone system, water distribution, etc., would all be down because they're all run by electricity. Communication would be by walking, bicycles, and horses. Navigation would be by paper maps.

Thinking about the San Bruno blast from the broken gas main a few years ago, I wonder what safety precautions are in place to make sure the gas pipelines shut down safely when there is no electricity at all. Are energy companies' computers, maintenance trucks, telephones, etc, hardened against solar flares? The nightmare scenario is that it would be hours or days before the right people know that a pipeline is broken, and even then they would not be able to do anything except let it burn out.

Does anyone here know about what precautions gas companies take?

Talking about the San Bruno blast and the right people knowing the gas main blew up, it took 8 hours for PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) to figure out which gas valve to close!! I sure as hell wouldn't stake my life on depending on the right people to know what to do during or after an EMP or solar flare event.

The North East black out some years ago is a prime example of how well our grid and knowing people hold up under a minor solar event.

It's every man to themselves, ( survival of the fittest ), cocked and ready, first come and F..k everyone else!