Preparing for WW3

[mvonw]

Seriously ?
If an EMP (Non-Solar) hits you or your area, you will have much more serious things to contend with.
Safe Home/Shelter, Food/Water & Life Essentials will be the priority 1st & foremost.
Put your Solar Gear etc into a SeaCan and use that as a Faraday Cage if your that concerned and have a need to do something even if it is just something to make you feel better.

But I want to watch my reruns of America's got talent!!!!

 

[pvdude]

We get these in our yard during the mating season.
Rules say we are not supposed to eat them

 

[Ozark Tinkering]

But I need a new pair of boots? ?

 

[Ozark Tinkering]

We get these in our yard during the mating season.
Rules say we are not supposed to eat them
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I'd eat that at least once. Has to taste something like snake? ?

 

[owen69420]

Mmmm. Ditch Lizard.

 

[robby]

Well everyday we are getting closer to it.....

My wife and I are thinkers...what do we need to do to have power after an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) that fries electronics. We are fine now if we lost the grid forever.

My biggest worry is my hybrid inverter and needing it the most of everything in the house....should I by a spare or just have a spare off grid inverter?...

We bought our steel garbage can yesterday with foil tape to put all electronics in if we do get a heads up that an EMP is coming...

All the other electronics aren't really needed. Phone's only work if there are cell towers, which they will be gone. My micros I could get along without. My charge controllers I could string panels to directly charge batteries if needed.....wife would likely want a spare Keurig....hahah

Anyone else thinking about this and have ideas? It is horrible what is going on in Ukraine.....so sad....

Even if everything works out great for you, within weeks you will be wishing you were amongst the dead!
No thanks I would certainly rather die in the first blast than have to be defending myself daily against groups of people who want my stuff.
Unless you never sleep, stay in a bunker 24/7 and have unlimited Ammo and a small task force of men to protect you then it's just a matter of days before someone takes you out with a hunting rifle and takes whatever supplies you have. Humans are fine so long as they are well fed and happy.

 

[iamrich]

I live 50 miles from Fort Hood... Don't have to worry about EMP or much of anything else... Russian missiles are not known for accuracy, so I am guessing at least one will hit my back yard. As long as the EMP kills the electronics on the guy's car that keeps driving up and down my street revving his motor at random times it will not be a total loss.

 

[WYtreasure]

Well everyday we are getting closer to it.....

I think this thread should have been started in Off Topic. 2 more pages and I bet it's totally down the crapper.
Getting some good laughs out of it though.

 

[mvonw]

Even if everything works out great for you, within weeks you will be wishing you were amongst the dead!
No thanks I would certainly rather die in the first blast than have to be defending myself daily against groups of people who want my stuff.
Unless you never sleep, stay in a bunker 24/7 and have unlimited Ammo and a small task force of men to protect you then it's just a matter of days before someone takes you out with a hunting rifle and takes whatever supplies you have. Humans are fine so long as they are well fed and happy.

Absolutely this. When you really think about it, you definitely don't want to survive it. It's just a TV inspired fantasy to think that you could live without society for very long. People could live, but just living isn't enough

 

[triplethreat]

At last report, Russia has slightly over 4700 nuclear weapons, which vary in size from 200 Kilo-Ton to 800 Kilo-ton. The US has just under 4000 and vary from 200 Kilo-Tons to 1200 Kilo-Tons......does anyone really think there will be an survival on the planet?

 

[offgriddave]

You guys are all preparing for what is now called (not a joke) 'conventional' nuclear weapon attack. The thing is this has changed.

Russian doesn't just have 'conventional' nuclear weapons, they have this one basically called by NATO Doomsday Torpedo, the Status-6 Poseidon torpedo.
200 km/h range of 6,200 nautical miles and payload of 100 megatons. They are colbolt 59 tipped and cause a radioactive tsunami.


Simply put, there is absolutely no survival or any signs of life for minimum 100+ years after use. It is also theoretically possible that just one nuclear bomb anywhere on the planet that is salted with enough colbolt 59 would eliminate all life on the planet.

The entire premise of surviving this isn't even a thing. Don't worry, they updated ready.gov... social distance and wear a mask. Don't forget to kiss your ass goodbye.

 

[Ozark Tinkering]

The entire premise of surviving this isn't even a thing. Don't worry, they updated ready.gov... social distance and wear a mask. Don't forget to kiss your ass goodbye.

Heck I never forgot my training from 1963. All I need is a desk to hide under. Like I said, I'll just step outside to watch the sunset and wait there.

 

[WYtreasure]

I live 50 miles from Fort Hood... Don't have to worry about EMP or much of anything else... Russian missiles are not known for accuracy, so I am guessing at least one will hit my back yard. As long as the EMP kills the electronics on the guy's car that keeps driving up and down my street revving his motor at random times it will not be a total loss.

Ya know, you can make your own directional emp and share it with your buddy in the hot rod. Your neighbors might give you a ?

EDIT: It would have to be a solar powered contraption, in keeping with the forum.

 

[Ozark Tinkering]

Ya know, you can make your own directional emp and share it with your buddy in the hot rod. Your neighbors might give you a ?

EDIT: It would have to be a solar powered contraption, in keeping with the forum.

You need one of these!!

 

[The Dish Doc]

Exactly and that's why I don't touch them with bare hands or let my dogs mess with them. The only good armadillo is a dead armadillo. I'd get tired of armadillo meat pretty quick knowing all that. They've been on a north bound migration out of Texas for the last 50 years or so as the climate heats up.

Armadillos eat ticks.

 

[offgriddave]

Heck I never forgot my training from 1963. All I need is a desk to hide under. Like I said, I'll just step outside to watch the sunset and wait there.

This one? Thanks for reminding me.

 

[WYtreasure]

This one? Thanks for reminding me.

In 1963 we got color on the idiotbox.

 

[Ozark Tinkering]

Ukraine's largest nuke is on fire now after a Russian missile strike. ?

 

[Abson]

Well everyday we are getting closer to it.....

My wife and I are thinkers...what do we need to do to have power after an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) that fries electronics. We are fine now if we lost the grid forever.

My biggest worry is my hybrid inverter and needing it the most of everything in the house....should I by a spare or just have a spare off grid inverter?...

We bought our steel garbage can yesterday with foil tape to put all electronics in if we do get a heads up that an EMP is coming...

All the other electronics aren't really needed. Phone's only work if there are cell towers, which they will be gone. My micros I could get along without. My charge controllers I could string panels to directly charge batteries if needed.....wife would likely want a spare Keurig....hahah

Anyone else thinking about this and have ideas? It is horrible what is going on in Ukraine.....so sad....

When the guns go off, your life should be your biggest concern, not your hybrid inverter, well, that's not funny at all.
War is cruel, may the world be at peace!

 

[time2roll]

I am far more worried about water and then food assuming I can breathe. Lights and A/C I can do without.
Living in a populated area I assume the end will be near instant if it comes to it.

 

[robby]

Ukraine's largest nuke is on fire now after a Russian missile strike. ?

It's really becoming apparent how inept and poorly trained the Soviet army is. No one in command of the squad thought that this would be a bad idea? Russia is going to inherit a wrecked country full of potential ethnic Russian terrorist that are going to wage a terror campaign on them for decades.
Good luck finding out who is who when your enemy can just drive into your country and blend right in.

 

[Bossrox]

Well, since anything that's powered on will potentially get fried, the easy way is to build your own solar generator for the loads you want, then disconnect the batteries so nothing is charged. For extra safety enclose in a metal box that is well grounded.

When things light off, raid the local WalMart/AutoStore/Etc for some FLA batteries, plug them in and everything should fire right up.

Lithium will probably be toast when the BMS's get fried, so stick with good old lead acid.

Don't absolutely need a bms for lith's. Setting the charger under the overcharge limit will work & manual monitoring to be sure they don't get overdischarged is a bit more of a chore but after an emp, everything will be a chore. Of course, having spare protected bms's is another option.

 

[Bossrox]

I was thinking a cheap growatt 5000es with transformer wrapped in foil and plastic would be a good backup to a primary UL rated system as it is cheap and at that point it will be off grid!

Most everyone has electric pumps for water and that should be people's main priority. Get a backup well pump and wrap it in foil and plastic several layers. Also get an emergency well pump that is manual. You can worry about food and everything else for a long time as long as you have water. This manual pump is particularly important with Nuke winter or supervolanic winter for a year or two. At that point stored firewood and fuels and food will take priority. Really can't guess how much solar you can get from a nuke or volanic winter so I'd just assume it's 0.

I'm not positive but I think well pumps would survive an emp. There's no electronics in them. it's just a motor. Electronics are the vulnerable items.

 

[Bossrox]

Well everyday we are getting closer to it.....

My wife and I are thinkers...what do we need to do to have power after an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) that fries electronics. We are fine now if we lost the grid forever.

My biggest worry is my hybrid inverter and needing it the most of everything in the house....should I by a spare or just have a spare off grid inverter?...

We bought our steel garbage can yesterday with foil tape to put all electronics in if we do get a heads up that an EMP is coming...

All the other electronics aren't really needed. Phone's only work if there are cell towers, which they will be gone. My micros I could get along without. My charge controllers I could string panels to directly charge batteries if needed.....wife would likely want a spare Keurig....hahah

Anyone else thinking about this and have ideas? It is horrible what is going on in Ukraine.....so sad....

Yep, thinking much the same here. I got a steel shipping container I can put spare panels, chargers, inverters, bms's & whatever to weather an emp.

 

[12VoltInstalls]

There's no electronics in them. it's just a motor. Electronics are the vulnerable items

Anything electromagnetically active. That’s why the telegraph wires burned in the 1800s or whenever that was

Ukraine's largest nuke is on fire now after a Russian missile strike. ?

that's what happens when plenty of groups warned about this. First ‘we’ didn’t respond in 2014 with a nato presence. Then in 2018 plenty of anti-war groups wrote lengthy opinions warning the world after the Kerch Strait incident and nobody did anything, and then current pres went around for recent weeks crying, “The Russians are coming! the Russians are coming!” and did nothing.
The Russians have 200 recent years of history acting militarily like it’s still the 10th century and they want their own version of the Byzantine Empire.