I'd like to see how Lotusbud fares if she was still living in California when a Chinese satellite passed over and an atmospheric burst of EMP fried most unprotected systems in a circumference around her.
What we should do? Who would she go to? How much would she help out the neighbours?
I think about that shit, a LOT. The possibility of an EMP here. I would do ok for the most part. Kinda like camping lol. Society isnt prepared for it. And they would turn on each very quickly.
We should make sure we can all make contact in the event some shit hits the fan.
Just so that we all have people.
We all may have to form some sort of commune in the future and make sure we dont end up like the Davidians :D
My husband and I were arguing about what would happen if DC got nuked lol
Carrier pigeons. Thats how we'll communicate lol.
I've talked to family and friends before about a situation like that, where we would all meet in the event of something. We all had our own unique abilities to aid one another too. Like medical, or gardening, or weaponry, or construction, or cooking, or inventory, etc.
Nontransister based radios and transmitters would still work. As long as you had a local power source and didn't blow a vacuum tube. BTW I have five from the Korean War. Sadly, none of them work and my generator only lasts as long as the gasoline in it lasts.
So still not an ideal solution.
Even if you had the fuel....fuel, even treated with stabilisers, goes bad eventually.
Far better to stuff a bunch of solar panels, various smaller motors and alternators, pll radios, nicad and lithium batteries, pumps, portable fridges/freezers and whatever tx devices you'd want for later in a well insulated and sealed steel Faraday box with desiccant, then place it in a basement and forget about it.
...and electric components for repair, if you want to be ocd...