What is an EMP?
An EMP is a burst of high levels of electromagnetic pulse radiation which comes from two main sources: solar storms or nuclear bombs. Both produce surges that could cause tremendous problems for America’s electric power grid.
For most of us, we never think a single thought about our nation’s electric power grid. We plug in the light, turn on the switch, and we have light. No big deal! We do the same for our computers, stoves, refrigerators, air conditioners, furnaces, phones, and whatever.
What is the electric power grid?
The electric power grid includes all of the nation’s electrical power companies, their generating stations which produce electrical power, high voltage power transmission lines, distribution lines to demand centers, and then to our receptacle plugs in our homes and businesses. All of these are interconnected together.
So, what would happen if an EMP hits our neighborhoods?
As far as potential disasters go, a large scale EMP is as bad as it gets. Most disasters last at most a few days. Clean up and recovery may last several months, but history reports that the disaster itself is typically over within 72 hours. An EMP is different. The pulse itself is just the beginning. Best estimates from professionals and experts who have reported to Congress after years of studying our nation’s vulnerabilities to EMP say that the affected areas can be expected to be without electrical power-dependent services (virtually everything) for many months and potentially years…
In fact, a committee of expert scientists was commissioned by congress right after the 9/11 terror attacks to investigate the threat of EMP in America. In this report to the Committee on Armed Services for the House of Representatives in July 2004, it was suggested that a large-scale EMP could feasibly shrink the current population to one third of its size… Participants in that hearing likened an EMP to a time machine that would thrust America back a full century in technology…
Remember, it’s not IF but WHEN. (Will You Survive When The Lights Go Out? Creek Steward, WND, 5/21/2013)
The odds of survival after a massive EMP are 1 in 3 … or in other words, 67% of us may die.
Are you more interested in miracles now? What do we have to do to prepare ourselves for them?
(Continued in Part 8)
