Prepared or Paranoid: Pandemics and Pandemonium and the E.M.P.

By Harold M Neilson

In this epidemic year of 2020, we have gone through a pandemic that has virtually hit the whole world and has found many in the USA totally unprepared. They found themselves without the many items that they should have always had on hand at home. It caused Paranoia and Pandemonium in most grocery stores, leaving the shelves empty, and left us five hundred-thousand-plus people dead.

When a disaster strikes, it doesn't make an announcement ahead of time; it just arrives and finds out if you are ready and doesn't care if you are not. Learn to prepare for any type of disaster, and always be ready.

The story presented in this book shows you many of the ways in which you can prepare yourself for totally unforeseen events. You have now lived through some of them, which should have made you realize that you aren't really prepared for most emergencies. Don't you think that it is about time to WAKE UP and BE PREPARED?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781662412691

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It Works in a Circus

Pure Mayhem

Mayhem, or what looks like it, is actually a polished routine. The jumping out of a small car piled up with clowns, hitting each other with slapsticks, and other comedy routines are all meant to entertain us. But when that kind of mayhem happens in real life, the result is completely different.

Living, as I do, just a few miles away from the city life, at the edge of farm country, I still get to hear and observe some of the traffic that makes its journey, daily, into the cities. The major roads that go there are not all that far away. While the traffic out here is much lighter and therefore somewhat more spread out, I know, from years of experience, just how tangled and how much slower the lanes can get as they head into town and begin to start their daily jam-ups. The closer you get to the major metropolis, the more on-ramps there are. Sometimes you find yourself in a complete parking lot, and most of the time, traffic runs a lot smoother. If that weren’t the case, you would probably take another route.

The new automobiles and all their newest safety features you bought into, to make sure that you and your family are safe on the road, were quite helpful, weren’t they? You know the ones: automatic lane centering assistance, power steering, power brakes with automatic braking to prevent an accident, and the various other road and lane sensors, all of them, that make driving safer. Now we even have driverless vehicles. Did you even think to ask the dealer if any of those extras would work if our country would be hit with an Electro Magnetic Pulse? (That’s a large jolt of electricity that knocks out all the electrical power items that you have in your car.) Simply put, nothing in your car will be working right, and your car is going to be coming to a halt, unless you have a Diesel Engine, which works on compression. That, however, won’t keep you from running into the stalled cars that no longer have any lighting, stoplights or taillights. That is what will be happening up and down all the highways in the USA and Canada when an EMP hits. How does an EMP work? With just a lot more electric than the wires and electronic devices can handle. A comparison would be like what excessive water pressure does to pipes; if the pressure is too great, the pipes will burst. Another comparison would be like the tectonic plates of the earth; when one slides under the other, you get an earthquake. The result will be nothing short of unexpected MAYHEM.

The lack of food and clean water and then our ability to produce any food, as a nation, will come to most nearly a complete halt. With only a few working pieces of farm equipment and the inability to water the crops, very little will be grown. Certainly, not enough to feed what is left of the country, and without transportation, no way to deliver the food. This means people die of starvation, and that also will help cause diseases.

Consider this, a report from the LeMay Center for Doctrine (December of 2018) about how 4.1 million people will be displaced from areas around nuclear plants as a response to the meltdown without electricity that will cause radioactive clouds. Other sources say the estimate of dead, within a few months, will top one hundred to two hundred million and for various reasons. Again, more MAYHEM.

The Ides of March

Day 1: Tuesday, March 15, 2022

For years now, I have been a prepper, that is, a collector of the many things that I hoped and prayed that I would never have to put to use. Last year, the Department of Energy was supposed to have a report developed for a resilience plan to combat an Electromagnetic Pulse, which I had been reading about on the internet. At 5:02 p.m. this afternoon, it would appear that the worst of my fears actually happened. Somewhere over these United States, high above the atmosphere, a nuclear device was set off, probably over middle America. I say this because it looks very much like we have just encountered an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) that would have been emitted by the blast. It has caused all electricity to go out, and when I heard the popping of several transformers, I figured that if it happened (at least in our area of the country), then it happened, if I am correct, all over the continental United States and probably Canada as well. I smell the odor of a burned-out ballast of a fluorescent light, and since I have only one, I first check the basement. The scent is strong, and it appears to come from the freezer. Apparently, the motor got a surge of electric and has blown out. I check the refrigerator upstairs, and it would appear the same has happened to it. Now I check out all the plugs in the house to make sure there is nothing that is burning and find I’m okay. I wanted to protect these and other appliances with a surge protector, but no manufacturer makes one, that they could guarantee, would hold up to an EMP—a lightning strike, yes, but not an EMP.

I am going out to the garage where I have a good deal of equipment stored in the Faraday Cage. Preparing for an EMP is one thing; living in its wake is another. I check the portable radio, put in the batteries, and find no station is on. It is not just the electric power that went out, but cars and trucks on the roads have all come to a halt. I am sure that there will be many auto/truck accidents because without power from the engine, even steering and braking will be very hard. I am sure that it will affect the majority of the cars on the road. I even heard a loud explosion, and again, if I am correct, that probably was an airplane crashing into the ground. Since I have no idea of just where it crashed, there is not much I can do to help. May God help them! Because the EMP device was probably set off high above the atmosphere, there will be no need for the Potassium Iodide tablets, and we won’t have to worry about radiation. Glad I’m not near a Nuclear Reactor; otherwise, it would be like Three Mile Island. If you don’t remember, people had to move out of the area because of the radiation. However, in the next few days and weeks ahead, we will be in complete turmoil. There will be scenes like we saw in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Just like the government: too little, too late. The worst of it all is that this means that we are at WAR! First with an unknown enemy, then with our own environment, and then with whatever the immediate future throws at us. We, as a country, will finally come to now know the real dangers of war. With but a few exceptions, we have just been set back to the 1850s.

If my wife and I are forced to go, we have our Bug-out bags packed and ready. Our bug-out bags are basically knapsacks filled with the essentials that you would need for at least three days of camping: Food, Water, Blankets, a folding Knife, Matches and a small Tent, Clothes, Flashlight and Batteries, Eating Utensils, Toilet Paper, Documents, and (with the hope that you don’t need them) Weapons. The essentials for living, packed and ready to go. We made sure to include something to cook or warm up on a Canned Heat Alcohol Stove and Mess Kit. Our Bug-out Place is known to our family and the neighbors as well. It is deeper into the country, nowhere near the city. In the meantime, we are going to stay put, but if we decide to go, we will use Bicycles. For now, we will eat what we have in the refrigerator. That means using the Camp Stoves.

As we go outside to look around, I notice several billows of black smoke at what looks like about a mile or so east, down the road, toward the city. That would mean that some of the houses there are on fire and will probably burn to the ground