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EMP Blast protection

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How will you get your goodies out of an electronic-lock safe, pump gas, start your car etc, if there is an EMP blast (electromagnetic pulse)?
How can you protect your electronic-lock safe/auto/electronics ahead of time?
 
This is a good question. I've seen EMP's used to stop/disable the cars of fleeing felons and aimable devices are on the horizon..the possabilty of a terrorpuke nuke is real(even if we dont want to admit it) how would you protect or access a say gun safe after an EMP wave?
 
Yup, Ozy is right, a faraday box or cage is the only thing I have read that will work.

The thing is to start NOT being so dependant on electronic stuff right now.

Like switch to a real paper day planner instead of a program on your computer.
This also helps with security as well as no one can hack your paper day planner, LOL.
 
If there should be a massive EMP, life as we know it is over... at least for a time. Everything will be down, nothing electronic will work, and it will take quite awhile for things to come back online. Stop and think of all the things that will be affected. That's right: everything in the US will be affected.
 
If one is close enough to a nuke blast to be affected by the EMP, I suspect that one would have bigger problems to resolve first - like finding one's skin, and digging one's flaming eyeballs out their sockets with a Bic pen. Maybe I'm wrong, though, and the EMP radius exceeds the "where did my skin go" radius.
 
dawsonbob said:
If there should be a massive EMP, life as we know it is over... at least for a time. Everything will be down, nothing electronic will work, and it will take quite awhile for things to come back online. Stop and think of all the things that will be affected. That's right: everything in the US will be affected.
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How will we post on the internet? My gosh, I have no protection at all against EMP. Nukes either. Even my new Jeep will be useless. We will all be reduced to savages. What about TV? How will our rulers and media overlords tell us what to think?
 
PastorMarko said:
Like switch to a real paper day planner instead of a program on your computer.
This also helps with security as well as no one can hack your paper day planner, LOL.
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Well nuts If everything is broken I'm sure not going to need a planner to remember an appointment. Heck I can't even get to the appointment to sell something that does not work.
 
powernoodle said:
If one is close enough to a nuke blast to be affected by the EMP, I suspect that one would have bigger problems to resolve first - like finding one's skin, and digging one's flaming eyeballs out their sockets with a Bic pen. Maybe I'm wrong, though, and the EMP radius exceeds the "where did my skin go" radius.
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If the EMP is out of a standard nuke, you would be absolutely correct. However, there are now devices meant only for EMP, which disable a country without killing most people or destroying the infrastructure.

Scary stuff, indeed.
 
Good thing my old Harley is still fired by points ignition. There is nothing electronic on it.:thumbup:
 
m1marty said:
Good thing my old Harley is still fired by points ignition. There is nothing electronic on it.:thumbup:
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I think you'd be safe with that. You won't be able to get gas for it, but it would probably run if you could.:D
 
dawsonbob said:
I think you'd be safe with that. You won't be able to get gas for it, but it would probably run if you could.:D
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Pretty sure this old garbage barge will run on kerosene if I tuned it right. It hasn't found a gas it didn't like.:D
 
You should read "One Second After" by William Forstchen. It really let's you know how bad things would get after an emp blast. After I read it I was thinking i need to replace my gun safe.
 
powernoodle said:
If one is close enough to a nuke blast to be affected by the EMP, I suspect that one would have bigger problems to resolve first - like finding one's skin, and digging one's flaming eyeballs out their sockets with a Bic pen. Maybe I'm wrong, though, and the EMP radius exceeds the "where did my skin go" radius.
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That is correct, one nuke would generate a large enough EMP to cover North America.
 
Getting stuff out of my safe is one major concern. I am starting to read about the Farraday cage. Since there is a small 'Farraday wallet' is there a quick field expedient way to protect safe/auto electronics without building an entire room? Would a lead apron as used when getting an x-ray help? A cousin of mine has had some "high-level" briefings on this and I understand an EMP blast is a real concern. A single missle launched a few miles high from an ocean barge could knock out much of the electronic circuitry in North America. Including my safe's electronic lock.
 
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