In a wide-spread EMP event essentially all modern electronic systems, including the power grid, stop working, permanent damage. Without deliveries of food (or anything else), inability to pump water, lack of refrigeration, and no modern medicine, things get bad fast. The breakdown of law enforcement would be complete. Regular citizens would become roving gangs foraging to survive, without caring about who got hurt in the process. Available supplies would soon be exhausted. Most people would not be able to evacuate without mass transportation or their own cars (both not working). Without sewage pumping and treatment, disease would become rampant and anyone requiring real medical care wouldn't get it. Garbage would just pile up. Of course, modern buildings, never designed with natural cross ventilation, become inhabitable. Underground fuel stores would be trapped. Fires would burn until they burn out. There would be a complete lack of reliable information (like is anywhere still OK?). A simple injury could become fatal. Spare parts for the power grid (like big transformers) are woefully inadequate and take years to build (mostly overseas, I hear). I think you bet the picture. People would be instantly thrown back into the 19th century and they lack the knowledge and stuff (like horses) needed to survive there.
-----Original Message----- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of dan penoff.com via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 1:44 PM To: Okie Benz <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: dan penoff.com <d...@penoff.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT for our printer expert -- What it's like to fix linotype, intertype, and other old presses How would an EMP event cause 90% fatalities? I’m not disputing, just trying to understand. Certainly stuff would break and cause some fatalities, but I find it difficult to imagine a number so high. -D > On Sep 15, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Not unlike the era when ships were made of wood and the men were made > of steel. They say that a wide-scale EMP event would result in 90% > fatalities. > I suspect higher, especially urban areas. Given systemic failures to > harden the grid maybe we would be better served learning how to survive > without it. > Does anyone teach Boy Scout skills these days? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2021 12:40 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT for our printer expert -- What it's like to fix > linotype, intertype, and other old presses > > Now THERE'S a scarce skill. > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 11:52 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> >> https://www.ifixit.com/News/52539/what-its-like-to-fix-linotype-inter >> t >> ype-and-other-old-presses >> >> -- >> >> --FT >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
