Interesting Timing for this:
Category: Solar Storms Published on Monday, 20 August 2012 12:57
Here is a report coming
out of the Heritage foundation regarding what the US Congress is doing
to prepare for an EMP attack. Follow the House bill link.
The
impression I had while reading the bill was that congress was going to
try and reinvent the wheel, so the fact that anything will be done
anytime soon, is unrealistic.
That
means we must have our own plans for an EMP situation. These plans must
be developed and written down in our family Emergency Action Plans. If
we suffer a EMP a lot of items that we have come to rely on will be
gone. This will include Air conditioners, heating, life support systems,
breathing machines, etc.
We
need to take a look at what we rely on first and make alternative plans
for those items, before we worry about items like computers, ipads, and
cell phones. Generators might be out and solar power takes so long to
recharge.
Common
Sense Preparedness is suggesting that you divide your EMP into two
parts One life safety equipment and two convenient items. You will need
to develop storage plans and power plans for both lists. These plans
should be included into your Family Emergency Plans
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Source Report
After the Lights Go Out: Is Your Community Prepared?
An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States would have truly devastating effects. An attack would change the “very fabric of U.S. society,” and
millions could potentially lose their lives in the aftermath. Yet as
the name “EMP Awareness Day” suggests, Americans and our nation’s
leaders remain woefully unprepared to protect against this threat.
An
EMP is a high-intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the
rapid acceleration of charged particles. Caused by either a nuclear
weapon detonated high in the atmosphere, a radio-frequency weapon, or a
naturally occurring solar storm, an EMP event could cause entire regions
of the country to lose electricity—permanently. Cars, cell phones, and
computers would all be dead. Water, sewer, and electrical networks would
fail simultaneously. Banking, transportation, food production and
delivery, and even emergency services would collapse.
Yet, as Heritage has explained,
despite the gravity of the EMP threat, “a survey of congressional,
federal, state, local, and international measures to deal with the
threat reveals more complacency than action.”
Indeed,
despite the many recommendations of such congressionally mandated
commissions as the EMP Commission and the Quadrennial Defense Review
Panel, little progress has been made to protect the country from an EMP
attack and prepare for the aftermath. And at the state and local level
things are equally as bad:
A
2007 survey of state adjutant generals, the officials responsible for
overseeing National Guard units, found that few states were prepared for
an EMP attack.… [A]lthough 96 percent of adjutant generals surveyed
indicated that they were concerned with the threat posed by an EMP
attack, few had analyzed the actual impact details of an EMP attack.
Recognizing this fact, House Resolution 762,
recently introduced by Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R–MD),
encourages local communities to create sustainable local infrastructure
and local power generation, food, and water production so that our
nation’s communities are better prepared in the event of a large scale
disaster. H.R. 762 also encourages citizens to develop individual
emergency plans so that they are able to care for themselves and their
families in the absence of government assistance.
These
policies would increase preparedness in the event of an EMP attack and
help ensure that communities and their citizens are better able to
respond the in the aftermath of all manners of catastrophic disasters.
In a normal catastrophic disaster, the federal government could take up to 72 hours to respond.
In the event of an EMP attack, things would likely be much worse. Local
communities and their citizens need to be prepared to help themselves
in the event of the next disaster.
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