Amish Heart
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The last thing I would do would be to go to the store. So many are off grid around us, I don't think they'd notice for awhile.
What would you do
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bigpaul
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going to a store could be dangerous even fatal if the masses get wind of the catastrophe to come. who will look after your family if you get seriously injured or killed? isnt this why we prep.
Brent S
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I was talking about with advanced warning making a last run to top off the pantry, not a weekly thing. Without power the stores would all close anyways.
iseeyoufly
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We've got plenty of food, but everyone could always use more. Nothing would get us to Bug-out except possibly a forest fire, then we're screwed.
I have my HT HAM in a sealed ammo can as well as my solar-hand crank radio. I also have extra batteries for use on devices that might still work after the EMP.
The first thing you need to do is move out of a wild fire prone area.
I know, easier said than done.
Good luck.
bmwrickster
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Or you could go underground bunker still keep all the resources you have underneath and want the fire done we build a verb nobody would definitely suspect anybody being there after a good wholesome fire going over head
Nice to meet all.
in regard to grid shutdown and that "last minute" shopping spree >>>> if power is lost, it's usual corporate policy for most of the Big Box stores to escort the customers out for liability sake and lock the doors as people exit - have to definitely keep that in mind as you load that cart - define that priority list and regularly chek out and handoff your purchased load to your parking lot crew >> not going to do you much good to have an in-store pile up or try running a bunch of loaded carts thru a possible parking lot hell .....
I was in a Wal-Mart and the power went out.
Except their check out lines still had power. Not even a hic-up. Kept right on going.
Not sure about the security camera system.
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the tills dont work without power, nobody has a manual override anymore.
automatic doors wont work either.
by the time you get there the stores will be closed.
the time to get stuff is BEFORE anything happens, afterwards is for Sheeple.
automatic doors wont work either.
by the time you get there the stores will be closed.
the time to get stuff is BEFORE anything happens, afterwards is for Sheeple.
I think I would just open another beer and wait for the panic to calm down, up the security, prep the house to look burned out to keep the looters away and start taking names...GP
If my understanding is correct radiation will come from radioactive material in the bomb blown to dust that didn't fuse. Also some nearby material will be given extra particles in their nucleus. They will try to return to a stable state and emit dangerous radiation in the process.
It would be a nice time to have an AK-47 and a thousand rounds of 7.62X 39.
Crossbow, recurve, katana, wrist rocket, throwing knives, throwing tomahawks and lots of chemicals for making toys...no AK/AR/FAL...
You are making me cry and drool!!! All illegal here!!
20 to life for possession...Besides, NO I would not rather have an AK...
I would prefer the Serbian version called the "Zastava". Better accuracy, longer life of the rifling, adapter for flash supressor, adapter for anti-tank and anti-personell rockets, handles the foreign ammo better and is not so sensitive for single shots while switched to full auto....best on the market.
Plus a TT (Takarov) 7.62 pistol and a CZ-75 in 9mm. All best on the market and fire-fight tested...
But I am only dreaming of my old toys from long ago days and will never get them back again...I'll go down with my knife in a gunfight!!!!
20 to life for possession...Besides, NO I would not rather have an AK...
I would prefer the Serbian version called the "Zastava". Better accuracy, longer life of the rifling, adapter for flash supressor, adapter for anti-tank and anti-personell rockets, handles the foreign ammo better and is not so sensitive for single shots while switched to full auto....best on the market.
Plus a TT (Takarov) 7.62 pistol and a CZ-75 in 9mm. All best on the market and fire-fight tested...
But I am only dreaming of my old toys from long ago days and will never get them back again...I'll go down with my knife in a gunfight!!!!
some of the chain stores have CAT diesel backups by their corporate code - Lowes have them around back >> I think it varies per region - I'd suspect there's more backups in the hurricane areas than most other parts of the country - pretty much a wash out around here without power ....
Amish Heart
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Oh, but AK's are so cool. You can drag them through the dirt and they'll still shoot. Osama just gave them a bad name. But the famous photo of him and his....his didn't have an adjustable stock.
Brent S
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The AR‘s are a lot better with dirt and such than they used to be. When I was in boot camp many years ago if the AR (M16) even saw a grain of sand it would jamb. They still aren’t as good at resisting crud and mud as an AK is but really have improved.
as far as a single defensive weapon goes, that’s a tough one. I have several that excell at one scenario or other. No one size anything fits all here.
as far as a single defensive weapon goes, that’s a tough one. I have several that excell at one scenario or other. No one size anything fits all here.
If I had warning, I'd run around and unplug and remove batteries from everything I could. I keep all my expensive test gear and a few radios in my metal desk drawer. The main reason EMP devices ruin electronics is due to the gates of CMOS , JFET and MOSFET devices getting a pulse from the induced voltage on the circuit board trace. If every switch in a computer turns on at the same time, game over. A direct hit will simply ruin the gate insulation and it wont matter if all the sensitive devices turned on at once. An EMP or a CME will not be the end of electronics though, just the electronics that are connected to an antenna or unshielded. Most electronics have a memory battery, like my spectrum analyzer, so even though it is rarely ever connected to anything, that bugger hides in the desk drawer 100% of the time it is not in use.
