EMP Letter

[jansman]

When you are young , ALL things are possible. Young people should ALWAYS do better than their parents and teachers. I believe that.
In the fullness of time we all learn.

[C4tch]

whats your end of the world then Jansman?

I am not here 'cos of the end of the world. My end is the day I die. When I was a member of Her Majesty's Royal Marines I saw a number of " casualties".
Worse still I saw my Dad take two years to die of cancer. It focuses the mind.
I store food and all the other junk because , like many others in our society, I have hit a " rough" patch.

I have been round a year or two. I understand my own mortality.
Like the Bedouin Tribesmen I adopt the attitude they have. 'Today we have food and shelter-tomorrow is another day'.
I think you reach an age where you adopt a certain calmness about life-especially when you are past halfway!

i

I agree with allot in that, but I personally never prepped before my children where born. I would not prep at all I don't think if it was not for them. It really bothers me what is happening in the world at the moment. I am not worried about the next 10 years, but the next 30. At that point my kids will be in the early 30s and I fear for what their lives will be like.

I also don't think MAD works with extremists. They show absolutely no regard for even their own people. They bomb food lines and even mosques. They want the world to go back to the Stone Age, since they really don't want modern life. The only way to contain this will be endless wars which people don't want. They will never stop fighting as they have nothing to loose. They are spreading further in to Africa and Asia. People are to scared to fight them.

I am not worried about a solar event either. I am much more concerned with the way resources are depleted. The next big war will be fought around resources I believe, and when things escalate, and crazy power hungry people are in charge, limits will be pushed.

So I think at some future time an EMP type attack is actually one of the more likely threats as an EOTWAWKI scenario. The question then is if this hype about how vulnerable the grid is turns out to be true. Maybe it is just another millennium bug!

C

[12mp82]

Possibility V's Probability, there may be a possibility, but what is the probability of success.

Some very good previous posts tell me that although it is possible (like me flying to the moon) the probability is pretty much going to be zero (Like I'm too old and heavy to fly to the moon)

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I personally prefer to spend my hard earned on stuff that is possible and probable, but if your research is that it is both possible and probable then Keep calm and carry on

[maxilaura]

it could happen, it might not - who is to say. Personally, I worry about my daughter. I don't want to even think of the "what ifs" which could affect her life, man-made or not. It really is quite scary and if I let myself think too long or hard about it, it could becoming paralysing, cause lets face it, my measly preps are not going to sustain her life long term should anything happen. As I said, scary stuff!

[preppingsu]

Djorn, please could you post a link to your source or sources. Thank you.

We don't want to be accused of plagiarism

[dazz675]

Like Jansman said today is today, let tomorrow happen, im vaguely worried at the lack of an defensive aspect of my prepping, but is it likely such an extreme situation will arise? if in the future the media indicates the situation is likely to deteriorate. say rationing or even talking about it, then i would prepp for that emerging reality... as best i could

[arnieh]

whats your end of the world then Jansman?

I am not here 'cos of the end of the world. My end is the day I die. When I was a member of Her Majesty's Royal Marines I saw a number of " casualties".
Worse still I saw my Dad take two years to die of cancer. It focuses the mind.
I store food and all the other junk because , like many others in our society, I have hit a " rough" patch.

I have been round a year or two. I understand my own mortality.
Like the Bedouin Tribesmen I adopt the attitude they have. 'Today we have food and shelter-tomorrow is another day'.
I think you reach an age where you adopt a certain calmness about life-especially when you are past halfway!

I'm with you on this one jansman I am now in my sixties and like you I prep for much smaller things, I truly believe that a disaster on this magnitude would be beyond the vast majority of us, and I can honestly say I would not wish to see it or try and live through it.

[tacticalprepper]

I see what your saying, a good write up

I have to say though, this has highlighted some interesting points. Keeping quiet about prepping, its something I do already as I don't want friends/family to think I'm crazy

There's also the debate about arms in the UK. Not something I would go into detail with here, but I'm all for the legalization (with restraints) on firearms. But that's a whole different matter.

I think the moral of the story is, we're prepping for the smaller incidents, not the end of the world.

[Djorn]

I think it is expect the best but prep for the worse....maybe we are missing a chance here...we are preppers, together we are united....we could make a plan in the event of an end of the world event...

Dj

[jansman]

The fact that I have (here goes) 7 month food supply, extensive garden (very) 2 polytunnels, independent water supply and wild food supply. (I am rather an accomplished angler and rabbiter), i have rabbits, goats and fowls. I am not bragging, as this is what me and my Dad before me did. I was brought up in a village( where I still live) and we all keep a bit of stock and grub in.

That I have all this only means I am securing wealth and wellbeing. It is what we do in the sticks. Nothing at all to do with teotwawki. It is more to do with earning shite wages most of your life and working through that.

Sure, I am prepared for eventualities. But never the end of the world.