Muffy, I did hear a little about the administration was going to start preparing for possible EMP. I guess better late than never. But instead of the left fighting with the right, they should have already been on this a long time ago. It will not be easy to repair the electric grid in the shape it is in. Really bad.
Also I agree we need to start learning all we can about preparing for a possible EMP. I do have a metal trash can that I have lined with cardboard. I have both solar and battery powered radio for emergency as well as both can be hand cranked to use. But that only gives you 30 to 45 minutes of use before having to crank it up. I did buy the EMP bags that I have put flashlights and the radios in as well as small battery chargers, and solar chargers. Each item is in one of those EMP bags and put in the metal trash can. I am thinking about getting another one as I have bought more of the solar chargers so I can charge my nook and other things. That will be in the can later. I do keep my nook and kindle. I do have the EMP bags that I do keep my nook and kindle in when I am not using them as a precaution. Another thing also is that I heard you can take a good grade of foil and wrap items in it but using like 3 layers of the foil to cover them. My nook I did this for but the kindle is in an EMP bag. I have been trying to learn more and more about what to do in this type of situation. I do know that those on city water and sewage will be in big trouble the water uses electric to pump the water where it needs to go as well as the sewage. So sewage can back up into your drains after awhile of flushing toilets and such. You need to have a back flow on the pipes leading out of house for sewage. I think we have one on ours but am going to check into this. I do know that if you live high enough up, it will take a lot longer before sewage seeps up into drains. This will not be good. Also natural gas. They have generators to keep that going but when they can’t get the fuel, the gas will be cut off as well. My one concern is winter time. Trying to keep house warm with fireplace. Cooking, I do have ways to cook but need to get that indoor cooker set up. Two things that I know of that will draw the wrong crowd to you is if they smell food cooking and a fire. So That also makes using a fireplace a bit risky living in a neighborhood. As far as communication the only things I can think of right now are a good set of walkie talkies and ham radios. My son in law does the ham radio and had been asked to help out when Franklin was flooded and no communication. So he helped out by using the ham radio as the electric was down for a long time. No cell towers were working in that area. So I kinda think we will lose the cell phone service though I have heard it said that you could text message if your cell phone is not effected by the EMP. But I can’t say that that will still work for sure. Yes this could be something for Daisy to dig into. Though I have been digging into it for a bit, It is complicated to learn this type of stuff. I did get an e-mail on something about an EMP whole house protector for this, but I have not had a chance to check into much. Will come back to that later when I find out if it is for real or not.
Granddaughter came in at 12:30 today and we spent the whole day with her. We had a great time. She is leaving in morning to go back to CA. We went out to eat at a seafood place. And came back to house and just enjoyed her company so much. We really hated to see her leave. Though she is planning a Sept. trip for a couple of weeks. This will be a trip of better conditions as this one was her grandmother’s funeral. It just seems so strange that you have all your grandchildren around you all the time as they are born and growing up and then they graduate high school, then off to college and move on to other states to find good jobs or in military and off to other places. kinda of makes you feel like you are going through the empty nest thing all over again from when your children grow up and leave home. But that is how life is and we all move on. Hubby and I would love to make that trip out to CA to visit our granddaughter but when her and her now husband got married is when we found out hubby would not be able to fly with his health issues. Also even a train ride 3000 miles away would have been to much for him. So our granddaughter is having an album made up with all the wedding photos for us. We have seen pictures on her website so the album will be a great keepsake for us. Our youngest grandchild will graduate high school in June and then he will be off to college but he is keeping it local. But after that we don’t know as he is going into cyber security and that is what my granddaughter and her husband do and why they live in CA. It is where the job took her.
Well it is getting late so off to get ready for bed. Long day tomorrow.