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7 Actions to Take Immediately Following an EMP Strike

Monday, April 20, 2015 7:20
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Editor’s Note: A huge EMP is like opening a Pandora Box:

1 – At a community level because we haven’t experienced one yet and we don’t really know how bad it will going to get. Frank Gaffney – president of the Center for Security Policy predicted that:

“Within a year of an EMP attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can’t support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity. And that is exactly what I believe the Iranians are working towards.”

Experts also agree that the next nuclear war will start with a big EMP. If one of the nuclear powers blasts a nuclear weapon 275 miles above the US it will produce an EMP that will basically send us, the Canadian and the Mexicans back to the Dark Ages. Will we be able to fight back after an EMP or will we be nothing more than sitting ducks for nukes? I have something you need to watch. It’s much better than I am at explaining the threat. Watch it and learn what you should fear most, what an EMP effects and how you can protect your electronics, car, mobile phones, etc.

2 - At an individual scale because you don’t really know where you’ll going to be when it will happen. There won’t be any kind of transportation or telecommunication. You’ll have to walk your way home. If you work 40 miles away from home, you got to have a plan. If your car gets stuck with your family on the highway on a cold winter – you got to have a back-up plan. If your child is at school you got to get him… and so on.

Of course it’s imperative to have at the back of your mind a list of things to do immediately after an EMP. But just like for any other crisis, you won’t be able to do a lot of things after the crisis begins. The information you’ll find bellow it’s good to know and should be considered as a plan. But it’s not 100% prepping. If you want to prepare for an EMP you have to have some things ready in advance. (Related: 10 Things to Have Ready before the Huge EMP !!! )


by P.J.

walking homeSo what actions should you take immediately following an EMP strike? Remember that time will be critical, the first few hours (days at most) will enable you to get a jump on everyone else and set the stage for your success. You will immediately know that an EMP, be it from a nuclear weapon or massive solar flare, will have struck your area. Your car will no longer work, your cell phone won’t work, the power will be out everywhere, planes will have fallen from the sky. You will know it was an EMP but the vast majority of the public will not, they will be quite literally sitting around waiting for someone to tell them what to do.  You won’t know how large the scope of the strike is but you will have to assume the worst, which would be a nationwide outage.

First things first, if you are at work, get home.  Your boss no longer has authority over you, your co-workers no longer are a priority. They will be trying to restart a computer that will never again work, trying to restart their smartphone, sitting in the break room trying to call 911 and saying things like: “This is ridiculous, I’m going to miss my 3pm sales call!” You on the other hand will go to you car and change into the extra set of clothes and shoes you keep in the trunk. You will don your “get home bag” and start walking, hopefully your walk will not take more than a day.

Once home it is time to start implementing your plan. Remember time is absolutely critical and you only have a small window of it in order to set yourself up for success.  During these initial hours and days people will still have faith that some sort of government agency will come in to make everything better.  They will expect to see the power come back on any minute because someone will surely do something. They will tell each other to sit tight, just hold on for a day or so because eventually the HMMWV’s will roll in loaded with supplies and some military officer or government official will explain that this is merely a temporary problem, nothing to worry about, sorry for the inconvenience. You know better because you realize just how devastating an EMP strike is and the reality is that it could be months before systems start to come back online. It will only take a week or two (at most) before things start getting really ugly because people start going hungry.  With all of that that in mind you take these 7 actions because you were prepared for this to happen.

1 – Use your cash. In the first few days after an EMP strike cash will still have value.  Take all of your cash and that radio flyer wagon your kids have and walk down to the corner store.  Avoid the big retail stores, I suggest finding the corner gas station or local drug store.  The owner of the store will no doubt be there, concerned that the items in the store are unprotected during a power outage.  Explain to the owner that you are in need of some supplies, can pay cash and do not require change.  Tell him/her that you will give them an extra $100 to allow you to “shop” for a few minutes.  Load up your wagon with anything you can find to include medication, candy bars, water bottles, pop tarts, lighters, hand sanitizer etc etc.  Of course you should be well stocked at home but you might as well get rid of your worthless paper money in exchange for any amount of extra supplies you can get your hands on.  In a week (maybe less) most stores will be completely looted so you need to take advantage of this moment.

tube2 – Fill up the tub(s) with water. Hopefully you have a water bob for each bath tub in your home in addition to several other water storage devices and water purification/filtration devices.  Remember a down grid means that fresh water will stop flowing to your home very quickly. Fill up your tub as soon as you can, that extra hundred or so gallons could prove invaluable. If you are concerned about the quality of the water remember you can add 8 drops of regular Clorox bleach per gallon to help purify what you have in the tub.

3 – Talk to your neighbors. This step is absolutely critical, you have to get out and talk to your close neighbors and explain to them what is going on.  They will be in denial for the most part, hopefully you have copies of the EMP report printed off which you can distribute as you go door to door.  Explain to them what is going on and that time is critical, let them know a worst case scenario means that there will be no help coming for quite a long time.  Additionally mention the following to them.

a. Discuss a neighborhood watch.  Tell them that in a few days or weeks things will get dangerous with hungry people roaming the streets.  It is essential that you define your neighborhood’s boundaries and set up a neighborhood watch of sorts, assigning people to different shifts.

b. Offer to hold a meeting.  Set a time that you will have a meeting at your home, say every day after sunrise in your garage.  Tell them they are invited and that every day you will be there passing out information.  At first you might not have anyone attend these meetings, in a few days there will be a handful and in a week you might have 50 or more hungry, scared, tired people demanding answers.  If you are going to assume the role of a leader, be prepared to do just that.

c. Tell them to use their cash.  Much like you should have already done, tell them that their cash will soon be worthless and that they need to get down to the market to spend it.  Most people have no cash on hand, so this probably won’t be a real issue.

d. Tell them to inventory their supplies. Most people have 3 to 5 days food on hand in their home. You should mention that they need to start rationing what they have, and taking inventory of everything else.

e. Start identifying those with skills. I wrote about how to organize a survival community as well as what skills will be valuable after T-SHTF in a few recent articles. While making the rounds in your neighborhood you should start identifying who has special skills and make note of it. Cops or military personnel could help with security, doctors have obvious value, and so on and so forth.

4 – Start rationing food. Hopefully you have at least a 1 year supply of food for your family, if not more. Start rationing immediately because more than likely you will have to share some of your food with your neighbors. It will be unavoidable, you will need their help to survive as a community and there is absolutely no way that they will starve while watching you and your family live high on the hog. This doesn’t mean that you cannot oversee how some rations are distributed, or seek out other sources of food, but just remember nobody gets through SHTF alone.

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5 – Hygiene preparations. Consider where you are going to dispose of your human waste, it might be a good time to start digging that pit. Also consider where you will dispose of your trash and if you will bury it or burn it. Remember the trash man won’t be around next Sunday and your toilets will stop flushing very quickly.

6 – Listen to your weather radio. Prior to the EMP strike you had a small solar/hand crank weather radio secured in an old microwave in the basement, it still works. You should monitor NOAA Weather Radio frequencies throughout the day in case there is information being published which you can use to stay informed. Maybe the strike only covered 500 square miles and help will be on the way in a week, or maybe there is nothing but static…not a good sign.

Related: “I Powered my House During and After Hurricane Sandy.” – Learn How

7 – Consider your own security plan. Despite all of the actions you are taking, trying to help those within your community by reaching out to organize them, realize that not everything goes to plan. There could be dissenters within your neighborhood or those outside of your community who might choose to take advantage of the situation. Looting will become prevalent very emp_tr47shtf-f0ds72d4cquickly and no neighborhood will be immune. Consider your security plan, this is no time to rely on the charity and goodness of mankind.  Remain suspicious of all activity and never walk around unarmed. Never allow your family members to venture out alone and remember to stay in after dark. All of that said I would caution against using deadly force unless absolutely necessary. Protect yourself and your family but remember that there will come a time when the power does come back on and people will be held accountable for their actions.

An EMP strike on our nation will be an absolutely catastrophic event and while I’m sure all of us hope that something like this never happens, hope is never a course of action.   Despite our best efforts to prepare for such an event there is a good chance that many will not survive. Some have predicted that within a year of a strike, 9 out of 10 Americans would be dead. In sports success or failure on the field of play is determined months before the actual game by how much dedication the athletes displayed during practice. In much the same way success or failure following an EMP strike will have been determined by how seriously we took our prep strategy in the months or years prior, as well as actions which we take immediately after. Life isn’t fair, plan accordingly.

This article was written by P.j. If you liked it, you can visit his website at Prepper-Resources.com

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  • The first action you should take in the event of an EMP strike is to run around in circles while frantically waving your arms about like an idiot. The second, third, and fourth actions would be to waste all of your ammunition, burn all of your money, and flush all of your food and water down the toilet. After that just sit around and wait for death.
    Ooga booga booga!

    -Mighty Clucker

    • Well, I feel silly… I made it all the way through your instructions and I’m at the “waiting on death” part and I just realized you said “in the event of an EMP”…. Guess I better put out the money fire, unstop the toilets, clean my guns, and go shopping… Going to need a sling too… I dislocated my left arm while waving it in circles.. I figured it didn’t matter if I was going to die anyway, but so much for that..

      • Yeah the EMP hasn’t happened yet. Fortunately you probably have time to rebuild your stocks.

    • You forgot: GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY – that rapture comes and you’re a chosen one!

  • I will Survive and Thrive

  • Given the potential for EMP or other power-outages – I invented the Gordon Rocket One. If I could have only one item in a SHTF situation it would be this. See GordonRocketCompany.com Makes a great addition to a beach or camping outing until there is trouble.

    • Totally inefficient piece of steel. If you want to waste all your wood supply, use this. So many better options, unless you have an unlimited fuel source.

  • VERY True water is Life, fill your bath with water as pressure in pipes will still force its way out but not for Long
    also remember more people die from drinking bad Water (Cholera) use cholera treatment oral rehydration therapy
    http://rehydrate.org/faq/how-to-prepare-ors.htm

    http://ors.uk.com/

  • people have survived 30, 40 plus days on their own wee.
    just sayin.
    :)
    our wee is 100% sterile and consists of excess vitamins, minerals, hormones, stem cells and over 2500 other beneficial, life sustaining ingredients.
    it’s what amniotic fluid is made of and if it can sustain and grow a human being……

  • Frank Gaffney: …”that is exactly what I believe the Iranians are working towards.” Is this guy a moron? Iran (Persia) has not attacked anyone in over 1000 years. Let’s do some research on this EMP thing. I’ve read that the police have a device which when set off renders an automobile immobile due to a small EMP. However I have also read that it doesn’t work very well. Which leads me to another question… If a nuclear explosion’s EMP is sooo bad, why didn’t the Enola Gay, and Bock’s Car not fall from the sky when the nuclear explosions took place over Japan? Was it because we didn’t know about EMP at that time?

    • Hard2know

      I would venture to guess that the electronics back in 1945 were not made of microscopic transistors, which are far more sensitive to the kinds of voltages introduced by EMF, which is likely why the planes did not crash. Nowadays airliners, vehicles, and pretty much every complex machine in existence today has transistors that would be affected by EMF if they are not protected.

  • At least there are some useful articles on this site.

    • Buy 25 liters of NaClo2 – Soduim chlorite. It will purify your water for years to come and keep you disease free. Learned long time ago – what’s forbidden by the goverment – work pretty GOOD. Its easy to make ClO2

    • 25 Liters NaClO2 (25% sodium chlorite) or the powder form will purify your water supply and body for years to come. Prevent diseases – I learned a long time ago – if it’s forbidden by the goverment – then it works like magic. They try to hide everything good from us. It is easy to prepare ClO2 – GOOD LUCK

    • Buy a 25 liter drum of 25% NaClO2 (Soduim chlorite) or the Powder. It will purify your water supply for years to come and keep you disease free.
      I learned if it is forbidden by the goverment – then its VERY effective. They hide things from us
      Making ClO2 is very easy – GOOD LUCK
      Advise – Dont read Wikipedia

    • Try to buy 25 litre drum of 25% NaCl02 (sodium chlorite) or the powder
      It will purify your water supply for years to come, and keep you disease free
      I learned if its forbidden by the goverment – then its really GOOD
      ClO2 is easy to prepare if activated
      Advise – dont read Wikipedia

  • #8 – Wish to God you had ordered one of these: GordonRocketCompany.com

  • I can tell you one thing about it.

    It will be SUDDEN and UNEXPECTED. Once you get over the shock the fear sets in then the uncertainty and then the panic.

    So, you will get hit by all sides of negativity before the screaming starts.

    And just wait till the food runs out.

    G’ day!

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