[PaleHawkDown]

I have talked to engineers at Los Alamos National lab and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory about EMP event. They say an EMP event would take this country back to the 1880's. Besides every solid state device destroyed all the power transformers in the country would be destroyed. Right now there is a 1 year lead time for these large sub-station transformers and these transformers can not be built with out computer controlled equipment. They are projecting a 70 to 80% loss of life. The best advice they could say is buy a horse.

Why? I understand people in the big cities killing each other off for resources, but they only make up half the country. 14.4% of the country is immigrants, and most of those from countries with little infrastructure. 20% of the population lives in rural farming areas. A little less than 1% is Amish. 60,000 people live without electricity at all (Did You Know There Are 60,000 U.S. Citizens Who Lack Access to Electricity?), and 4% of Americans are choosing to live all or partially off-grid.

That's nearly 40% of the population that would be affected very little.

You don't get a 70% to 80% loss of life during a revolution or civil war, and that's with people lacking basic infrastructure and food, and being shot at and bombed.

Consider Hurricane Katrina. 1,170 people were killed by the storm, and in the aftermath of looting, rioting, and violence. No running water, no electricity, and a lack of food and resources . Out of an estimated 100,000 thousand people who stayed behind, that still only accounts for 1.17 percent. We just lived through a year of riots and violence and even among the population directly involved with those, relatively few people died.

Even the black plague, the deadliest thing to ever happen to humanity, only killed 30% of the population.

For many people, an EMP might be a wakeup call. No distractions, no office 9-5 daily grind, no getting angry on the internet, all your debts and financial obligations erased, no taxes. No stupid laws. No traffic. Sure that also means no money, and some hard times, but humanity has survived all that before - and recently, too.

 

[PaleHawkDown]

Hogwash. Any alphabet organization can put together statistics that can be made to say anything. Wasn't it Benjamin Disraeli who said "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics"? You know, NASA (yes, that NASA) says the climate on Mars is warming up and the polar ice caps are melting. And as for as I know, there ain't nooooo humans on Mars. (Except for Matt Damon, but only for a short time. Maybe it was him made the Martian polar ice caps melt.)

Mars is Melting | Science Mission Directorate

It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap melt, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.

science.nasa.gov

Twain.

I've said it before, but man-made global warming doesn't even make logical sense, and it makes less sense due to their "evidence" and their theories constantly changing.

First off, this is one of the cooler periods in geologic history: What's the hottest Earth's ever been? | NOAA Climate.gov

Dinosaurs mostly lived on a much warmer Earth than we have now, and this is from NOAA, one of the spearheaders of the human-caused climate change myth.

 

[PaleHawkDown]

If the whole grid went down, it would kill my business, but it would also kill the bill collector's business...soooo.

On the homefront, we'd barely register a change. No TV, and my son might go through technology withdrawal, but we have a propane-powered kitchen on the screen porch, a basement that never gets above 73 degrees, and plenty of dry goods, good neighbors, and ammo for the bad ones.