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This tells me that you are a troll. I have asked you to provide more knowledge, I offered to share mine just so you can share yours. I have tried to answer all your impossible combinations of catastrophes by explaining what is reasonable and what is not. However, you are not here to learn, you are here to show your doomsday porn desires down everyone's throat...
sorry, i'm not here to waste my time on unbelievers who throw derision about like confetti, I've got better things to do. that's my final comment to you.
sorry, i'm not here to waste my time on unbelievers who throw derision about like confetti, I've got better things to do. that's my final comment to you.
Ah, the "non-believers" - yup, sounds about right. Troll away troll! You never really had anything to say about prepping except that "it is all going down!" and "we are doomed!".
OK, I tried to read every one of the previous posts now my lip is chewed to ribbons so I have to offer some comments. While I do not claim to be an expert I do have almost 25yrs experience in the Electric Utility Generation and Transmission industry. I can guarantee you the interconnected electrical grid in the USA is at risk. Both from Natural disaster as well as physical attack. .......... Sheesh I give up! Don't be ready, don't think it can't won't happen. I couldn't care less. Me and mine will be fine while some of you will be in the dark. 60k gallons of Diesel in a relatively hardened sight on a fresh water lake will make sure of that.......
the British power grid is also at risk, not only do we not have enough power stations(so we have import electricity) we also only have a 1.2% back up supply, so if have a cold winter this year blackouts are inevitable.
In my state, storms, bad drivers, arctic freezes, all combine to knock out power pretty regularly. (Once a squirrel shorted out on a transformer and blew the power to the whole state capital complex for a day ), which is why most folks here not only have a generator, but also have backup heat. While most have electric or natural gas heat, just about everybody I know has a woodstove or fireplace as well just for that reason.
Others like me have generators with sufficent fuel to last for at least a month, primary wood heat, and a backup propane system seperate from any connection to the grid.
The generator powers the house and runs fans to move the heat through the house and takes the place of blowers on furnaces that do the same thing on grid systems.
Our weather is too severe to take chances on the grid being in place.
In the 1980's a train car broke loose in Helena Mt., crashed into other cars in the railyard and blew up taking out power to most of the city while the temperatures stood at -40.
No casualties from the cold because everyone had backup heat or their neighbors did.
Depending on any system completely is a recipe for failure. Take care of yourself because nobody else will.
this is true, but in my country if I was to say such a thing I would be looked on as strange and a little odd(so I don't say it).
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