Re: How do you get home after the big Zap?

On Aug 1, 9:00 am, Bob Giddings <bobgiddin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Electronics can be shielded, but in fact little of it is.

Consumer, right, Military, well, not as true.

 Every
day that goes by, the western world is more and more susceptible.
We are becoming completely dependent on electronics.  For one
thing, most cars won't run without them.  Except perhaps for a
few of those clunkers everyone is trading for cash.  Recovery
would be possible, but unlikely in the short term and laborious
in the long.  We would be totally dependent on the kindness of
strangers.

Apparently the only thing that keeps this from being a currently
viable terrorist threat is that EMP is only effective over large
areas when generated at high altitude, and that requires
missiles.  

True.

It would probably require the action of a foreign
state, at least at this point.  Such a state would likely be
promptly obliterated.

Or zapped by their own EMP, name one that isn't deeply into
electronics, and none of it shielded

 The one thing that would still work around
here after EMP would be our own missiles.

True, they are hardened. A life-time ago I did work in that area..

Odd, the sub-force isn't remotely worried, probably has to do with
several hundred feet of shielding.

To drag this back to RVs.. The refer would die, the solar charger
too, as would the AC smart-charger. The oven and water-heater would
both work, but the control circuit on the heater/A/C would be gone.
The circuits in the Honda generator would be gone also

My old 76 MeToo would have been just fine though
.

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