After an EMP Attack – How To Get Home When it’s 700 Miles Away | |
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User ID: 2272054 12/12/2024 08:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If an EMP attack happened and you were on the other side of the country, what would you do? From time to time, my work required me to have to go out of town on business just like millions of other people each year. The distance and locations all vary with the need, but in a lot of cases, I am unable to be as equipped as I would normally be around my home town. In some cases, I travel internationally, but that is rare. Quoting: Eth84 Sometimes I only travel an hour or two by car so I opt to drive. In this type of situation, I can take my Get Home Bag and usually a firearm (or two) with me. Most often it is several hundred miles away from home and to cities where firearms are not allowed. On business trips, it is harder to pack your survival supplies in sufficient quantities to last if some disaster happened and you needed to get home. I started to consider what a person would need to think about and could possibly face if they were in a situation where an EMP attack, delivered by a warhead exploded over the US, total chaos ensued and you were forced to make it back home over a considerable difference. In my scenario, the distance would be about 700 miles and the assumption with an EMP attack would be that there were not many electrical devices working. All cellular communications would be down as well as landlines were out of commission. TV and Radio networks had been taken offline even if some of the TV sets and radios themselves still worked. I don’t imagine every single electronic device in the world would go out forever, but it would be enough to create massive confusion, fear, and panic. In addition to communication and access to news all access to money was cut off. Banks would slam shut and a bank holiday would be declared. Hospitals would quickly fill with the sick and injured and you would be on your own. How would you get back home and what would you need to consider if your home was 700 miles away and you had no survival supplies and no way to procure them. Read the rest of the article BELOW: [link to prepper1cense.com (secure)] You become a resident of the new town. Achduke |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77996916 12/12/2024 08:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If an EMP attack happened and you were on the other side of the country, what would you do? From time to time, my work required me to have to go out of town on business just like millions of other people each year. The distance and locations all vary with the need, but in a lot of cases, I am unable to be as equipped as I would normally be around my home town. In some cases, I travel internationally, but that is rare. Quoting: Eth84 Sometimes I only travel an hour or two by car so I opt to drive. In this type of situation, I can take my Get Home Bag and usually a firearm (or two) with me. Most often it is several hundred miles away from home and to cities where firearms are not allowed. On business trips, it is harder to pack your survival supplies in sufficient quantities to last if some disaster happened and you needed to get home. I started to consider what a person would need to think about and could possibly face if they were in a situation where an EMP attack, delivered by a warhead exploded over the US, total chaos ensued and you were forced to make it back home over a considerable difference. In my scenario, the distance would be about 700 miles and the assumption with an EMP attack would be that there were not many electrical devices working. All cellular communications would be down as well as landlines were out of commission. TV and Radio networks had been taken offline even if some of the TV sets and radios themselves still worked. I don’t imagine every single electronic device in the world would go out forever, but it would be enough to create massive confusion, fear, and panic. In addition to communication and access to news all access to money was cut off. Banks would slam shut and a bank holiday would be declared. Hospitals would quickly fill with the sick and injured and you would be on your own. How would you get back home and what would you need to consider if your home was 700 miles away and you had no survival supplies and no way to procure them. Read the rest of the article BELOW: [link to prepper1cense.com (secure)] You become a resident of the new town. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84205539 12/12/2024 08:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I drive OTR and I came to the realization, that I won't make it h9ne if a emp attack happens and neither will you. You will die if you try. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76626437 12/12/2024 09:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If an EMP attack happened and you were on the other side of the country, what would you do? From time to time, my work required me to have to go out of town on business just like millions of other people each year. The distance and locations all vary with the need, but in a lot of cases, I am unable to be as equipped as I would normally be around my home town. In some cases, I travel internationally, but that is rare. Quoting: Eth84 Sometimes I only travel an hour or two by car so I opt to drive. In this type of situation, I can take my Get Home Bag and usually a firearm (or two) with me. Most often it is several hundred miles away from home and to cities where firearms are not allowed. On business trips, it is harder to pack your survival supplies in sufficient quantities to last if some disaster happened and you needed to get home. I started to consider what a person would need to think about and could possibly face if they were in a situation where an EMP attack, delivered by a warhead exploded over the US, total chaos ensued and you were forced to make it back home over a considerable difference. In my scenario, the distance would be about 700 miles and the assumption with an EMP attack would be that there were not many electrical devices working. All cellular communications would be down as well as landlines were out of commission. TV and Radio networks had been taken offline even if some of the TV sets and radios themselves still worked. I don’t imagine every single electronic device in the world would go out forever, but it would be enough to create massive confusion, fear, and panic. In addition to communication and access to news all access to money was cut off. Banks would slam shut and a bank holiday would be declared. Hospitals would quickly fill with the sick and injured and you would be on your own. How would you get back home and what would you need to consider if your home was 700 miles away and you had no survival supplies and no way to procure them. Read the rest of the article BELOW: [link to prepper1cense.com (secure)] The hard reality is that you wont be able to comfortably or reliably fix every situation to your convenience. The very first thing that happens is that every and any potential border will be contested to the maximum degree possible, and you aint going to just waltz past them or the people already there. There will be no welcome wagon for anyone passing by. Once the governmental/social/cultural control mechanisms are destroyed, every square millimiter of ground will be contested and it will be left to the worst possible narcissists on the planet to grab for anything they can get and they will be able to build an army of servile subs to do their bidding in exchange for some kind of organized survival by taking it from others that can be overwhelmed and looted. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80397395 12/12/2024 09:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bicycle, repair Set, water, emergy/protein Bars and a paper map. Sleepingbag may be useful and rain gear. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 88436820 Thats all. The problem with a bicycle, is that you are such an EASY target. Any surprise attack, puts YOU at a disadvantage. You are holding handlebars, balancing, the bike. Before you can defend yourself, you have to stop the bike, and then grab your weapon. I actually enjoy biking. I'be even tried shooting my pistol, while riding. It's possible, on smooth surfaces, but not very accurate. In a scenario like this, if there was danger of a gun or knife attack, and I was armed, I WOULD BE WALKING! SLOWLY! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 18781240 12/12/2024 10:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Clearly your best bet "IF" you have to get home is a bicycle. (be sure to ALWAYS carry plenty of cash so you can buy what you need if you get trapped out.) The biggest problem would be how to avoid the big cities on the way since they would be the most dangerous places to transit for someone just "passing through" You can easily cobble up the MUST HAVE items that are small and lightweight for such a trip and pack those with you, leaving the bulky or heavy items like a sleeping bag and serious rain gear having to be bought on the spot. You may want to consider carrying in the bottom of your luggage the books of "State County Road Maps" for each states between where you are going and where you want to go since that is your best hope for finding routes around the big cities. Those would probably be the biggest and heaviest item you would need to carry when you traveled out. Obviously if that happened you should try to find any other way to get home you can, including finding any transport truck still running that is heading the way you are going and bribing the diver to let you ride along as far as possible. "IF" you are in good shape although your bottom would hurt like hell if you aren't used to long distance bike riding, 100 miles a day is easily doable for most in shape people. Figure an extra 200 miles so as to avoid the big cities, so call it a 9 day trip. OH ... and if the easiest and most direct routes with the least steep hills are railroad tracks! Gets rid of myriad curves and hills! If you can find maps of them the "Rails to Trails" bicycle trails are MUCH easier to ride from point to point since they cut out almost all the hills and curves - but that would take some sleuthing since I don't think there are any good regional maps of those extensive trails - fwiw THOSE are the easiest way to cross the Appalachian Mts, MUCH better than any road across or through them. |