Subj : Re: EMP Recovery - Years!
To   : k9zw
From : Greenlfc
Date : Fri Aug 05 2022 05:58:42

On 04 Aug 2022, k9zw said the following...
 k9> 
 k9> So the governments knew this for at least a decade, and didn't want us
 k9> to worry or prepare?

Of course they knew.  To be fair, a lot of the prepper community has been banging the EMP/CME drum for decades.

It all goes back to a black start.  Even if there was nothing else wrong, if you turned off the grid it would take a long time to turn it back on.  Now add any computer controls that were knocked out (either due to the EMP itself, or a surge as the systems went down or went unbalanced), transformers, and so on.  How do you manufacture replacements?  We don't have the early industrial-revolution capacity to build parts by hand.  We'd be clawing our way back from the 1800s.  

In the mean time, the brains with the talent to get us back online have to worry about food, freezing, raiders, the concurrent breakdown of the modern medical and pharmaceutical establishments, and so on.  It's a cascading failure that would take a lot of time to recover from.

Granted, EMP does tend to be an overblown threat, but that's not to say that it's nonexistent.

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