What’s in YOUR Faraday Cage? A Common Sense Guide To Reparing for
an EMP
by
Lisa Bedford
The Survival Mom
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Massive solar
flares have been in the news recently, along with vague warnings
of how a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) might affect us here on earth.
The dangers of a man-made Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) was outlined
in excruciating detail in One
Second After by William Forstchen.
We rely on
electronics way too much to ignore the potential of these events,
and although even the experts
aren’t always in agreement where details are concerned, it
makes sense to have a plan to protect
important electronics in either event.
What experts
do agree on is that many items with any type of electronic component
may become inoperable by either a CME or EMP. From Survival
Mom: How to prepare your family for everyday disasters and worst-case
scenarios:
An EMP can
be caused by the detonation of a large bomb, nuclear or otherwise,
in the atmosphere, miles above land. Its pulse wave can easily
cover a continent and destroy electronic components in computers,
engines, power plants, and solar panels alike. An event like this
has never happened on a large scale, and there are differing opinions
as to the exact consequences, but one thing is certain: In a matter
of moments, life as we know it would be gone forever. Our closest
star, the sun, could also do extensive damage in the form of a
Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The results would be similar.
I don’t
have a plan to turn my garage into a giant Faraday cage in hopes
that our vehicles would be spared, but I have made plans to protect
other, smaller items that would make a huge difference in our survival
following a CME or EMP. Here is a list of some of those items.
- Mp3 players
filled with music. also, every spare set of earphones I can scrape
up around here.
- An old
laptop computer with downloads of ebooks and stored personal information
- One or more
digital cameras
- A set of
walkie-talkies that run on rechargeable batteries
- Solar battery
chargers
- A Kindle
containing more than 150 books, many of them reference and survival
books but also dozens of classics and a couple version of the
Bible
- One or more
digital watches and clocks
- Small DVD
player (a backup player would be good also)
- Any and
all digital photos stored on a DVD and/or a thumb drive
- Scanned
documents stored on a DVD and/or thumb drive (See Grab-n-Go
Binder.)
- Computer
hard drives
- Ham
radio equipment
- A small
generator
- LED flashlights
- Shortwave
radio
- Inverters
- Electronic
medical equipment
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July
21, 2012
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