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Crow Bar 1 year, 7 months ago.
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New to the forum and enjoying the conversation. I am currently reading the book “One Second After”
An EMP brings the country to a standstill and a town struggles to survive. Most of what you all are discussing is included in this book. Whether its food, medicine, transportation or law and order its covered in this book. Whether or not you read much it is a very thought provoking book when it comes to prepper situations. -
I also liked that author’s book, Day of Wrath. WOW.
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Oh gosh Daisy, Day of Wrath scared the snot outta me. Because it was way too plausible. It’s like, I can watch horror films, but many “psychological thrillers” are too hard for me because they’re too plausible.
As for One Second After – I read it on my Kindle (and yes, I enjoyed the irony). It’s kinda the granddaddy of the EMP genre. And really brought home to a lot of people the potential for serious consequences if one happened. Another to read, if you need a non-fiction one to convince relatives to consider prepping for sustained power-outage is “Lights Out” by Ted Koppel.
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@annaraven,
I second on “Lights Out.”
I felt he brought his journalistic reporting skills to the subject.
While he was mostly objective, I got the sense he was none to impressed with DHS.Toward the end, the interview with the state employee, I think it was NJ, stating they did not have the resources to sustain all the people coming out of NYC. Their response was to hand out bottles of water and tell them the next state over, PA, had all the food, shelter, and supplies . . . just get them through NJ and a burden for someone else as fast as possible.
Yeah. Not a whole lotta confidence.
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Anonymous@Jon_Wick, the first book of the series is pretty good. The second not bad, but I didn’t care too much about the third one.
One thing I think the author left out is, to me, a big issue. Who, when all that happened, was in control of the nuclear arsenal. The picture he gives is of a crippled military, a dead president, and a country left to his own. I seriously doubt the the rest of the world, in a situation like that would not take over all the nuclear sites. He limits the foreign intervention to the Chinese taking over the West.
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