previous blog article on subject:
a 100 ton Monster Missile named Satan from Russia
I read about a new Russian Missile that is a 100 ton missile that they
call Satan today. I then started reading about the author Pat Frank and
his book,
Alas, Babylon 1959
that I read in the early 1960s about a nuclear holocaust in the U.S.
Only I thought it might be interesting instead to write a short piece
about a 100 megaton Hydrogen Bomb missile Blast at 100 miles up above
the U.S. and what the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) would do to EVERY
civilian electrical device or Electrical generating station in the U.S.
note: 100 miles up is 528,000 feet in altitude. Likely if a hydrogen
bomb of any size went off at that altitude there might not be any sound
because it is just so high. But there might be a concussion or change in
air pressure or some other kind of experience in the air. Also, it
would be so far away that even if you happened by accident to be looking
directly at it you might not go blind as you would if you were within
10 miles of it here on earth. My motivation is as an intuitive wishing
this not to happen. By making more people aware of what could happen it
creates people to stop it from happening. By just pretending like
children that this won't happen doesn't stop it. What stops this from
happening is enough people aware of it to stop it. So, because of North
Korea and Iran and all the problems now in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq,
Syria etc. I write this to make us all realize just how high the stakes
really are with all the changes and unrest now on earth.
quote
from wikipedia on nuclear bombs subsection "Hydrogen bombs": The other
basic type of nuclear weapon produces a large amount of its energy
through nuclear fusion reactions. Such fusion weapons are generally
referred to as
thermonuclear weapons or more colloquially as
hydrogen bombs (abbreviated as
H-bombs), as they rely on fusion reactions between isotopes of
hydrogen (
deuterium and
tritium).
However, all such weapons derive a significant portion, and sometimes a
majority, of their energy from fission. This is because a fission
weapon is required as a "trigger" for the fusion reactions, and the
fusion reactions can themselves trigger additional fission reactions.
[10]
Only six countries—United States, Russia, United Kingdom, People's
Republic of China, France and India—have conducted thermonuclear weapon
tests. (Whether India has detonated a "true", multi-staged
thermonuclear weapon is controversial.)
[11] All thermonuclear weapons are considered to be much more difficult to successfully design. end quote.
The Beginning of the End: George was walking on one of his familiar
trails that he walked with his two dogs one or more days a week, his
older dog was part long Hair
german shepherd and part
australian shepherd but he was getting old now for a big dog of over 70 pounds now because he was 12 years old. His daughter's Gold and white
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
came along. She was doing much better than the older dog because she
was only 5 or 6 years old now. At one point he saw a flash in the sky
out of the corner of his eye, but because he didn't hear anything he
thought it might be an illusion until he thought a few seconds later
that his pocket was on fire. He reached in his pocket and threw his keys
out of his pocket while swearing from being burned. His metal snaps for
his jeans and belt buckle started to burn him as well so he stripped
his pants off and watched the arcing from his pants and his keys toward
a nearby tree. Though George was a little hard of hearing it sounded
like a lot of sounds like the snapping buzzing sound of the static
electricity from his keys to the tree and the snapping of almost
anything metal that he had. He noticed that his glasses plastic case had
melted from the arcing from even his glasses. In the distance it sort
of sounded almost like electric crickets buzzing in all directions. He
watched a transformer explode on a telephone and power line and then
watched the lines arc and melt off the poles. He sat on the ground and
thought either he was near a lightning cloud and lightning was about to
strike or something really strange was going on. He started going
through in his mind what could have caused this strange thing. He looked
up and there was a very strange sort of cloud that reminded him of
pictures he had seen of mushroom clouds on earth. But this one seemed to
be higher than jet passenger planes fly by twice or more. Since there
was no sound he just thought it was maybe some really strange super high
Thunderhead. In the last 10 or more years he had noticed that there was
always some crazy kind of weather going on either near where he lived
or somewhere else on the TV news or weather channel.
When he
looked up into the air towards this strange high thunderhead he started
to get a really bad feeling about all this. He thought, "Was that an
EMP? one by one all his understanding from the 1950s to the end of the
Cold War in the 1980s came true in a truly nightmarish way regarding
EMPS (Electromagnetic Pulses) caused by a thermonuclear explosion at 100
miles or more altitude above a nation. He heard a banging on his front
door when he returned home and his neighbor Bob was crying. George found
out from him that his wife was dead in the kitchen from the EMPEMP
proof two way radios. So, his neighbor took off on one of George's
bikes and returned after not too much time.
Note: I'm not sure
why but pieces of my writing keep disappearing almost every time I proof
read it. Since I'm composing online this is becoming sort of
problematic for me. However, I think people need to understand that what
I'm writing about could happen anywhere on Earth. And though it is
theoretical none of it is a fictional concept but rather what scientists
have basically told us what would happen if someone set off a nuclear
missile at 100 miles or more above a country like the U.S., Europe,
Russia, China or anywhere else here on earth.
Colonel Bob said,
"I found out at the fire station that it was a terrorist from the
middle east who set off the Russian 100 ton missile called "Satan".
George said, "Well, That's a relief! At least it wasn't a country." Bob
Said, "Yes. But it does also make our country vulnerable to our
enemies." George said, "But don't we have doomsday weapons?" Bob said,
"That actually is our biggest problem right now because they are set to
go off soon and I don't know if any vehicle is running so that the
doomsday weapons can be stopped at this point." George said, 'Where will
they go?" Oh. They are programmed to return a devastating blow to
whatever nation that missile sprang from. That is why this is so
problematic." George was starting to get an even sicker feeling as he
thought about this. He said, "What percentage of people in the U.S. has
died?" Bob said, "Well. They said at the Fire Station that at least 50
to 70 million people have died from being near pieces of metal like cars
toasters, sinks, bathtubs sliding glass doors and the like. But I would
say from what I was taught about stuff like this that it is between 1/3
and 1/2 of the U.S. population in the lower 48 states." George felt
sick again and said, "I'm sorry about your wife, Bob." Bob said, "I
can't think about that right now. You and I have to maintain order here
until things start to get better and that could be anywhere from weeks
to months." George said, "We could starve by then." Bob said, "No. Our
biggest problem likely will eventually be looters who become desperate."
Bob said, " I think you and I should gather all the canned goods and
bread and things like that from all the houses where everyone died or
where they are visiting another area." George said, "What if they
return?" Bob said, "Well. Then we will share food with them after we
show them their friends and relatives graves that we dug."
George who had been a survivalist in the early 1980s said, "We need to
dig a latrine behind each of our houses because we can't waste water on
flushing a toilet." Bob agreed but said, We need to keep the bowl filled
with water because if it dries up the smell from the sewers might
become unsanitary." George agree that at least for now this would be a
good idea." He said, "What about showers?" Bob said, "Even though this
is onerous for now, I think we might need to bathe in the ocean." George
said, "Do you remember what it feels like to have salt on your skin?"
Bob looked George in the eye and said, "George. We are in survival mode.
We don't know how long we will have to hold out with candles, no
refrigeration, no cars, no markets, no nothing here. We may even have to
start shooting looters." George didn't like this idea. But after all,
Bob was the military man. George said, "Will canned foods be edible?
What if the EMP weakened all the cans or blew holes through them." Bob
looked stunned but realized George might be right about any metal
container. He said, "We need to look at canned foods carefully to see if
they look edible or if there is any leakage from inside.
Around this same time a bus drove up and at this point George and Bob
felt like they might have re-entered some kind of normal world that they
had lived in up to about 6 hours ago when the EMP hit.
It was a
military bus wired and designed especially for exactly this kind of
problem delivering his wife and daughter. It had been going to schools
and malls and police stations and fire stations and city halls to try to
return anyone home who wanted to go there if that area was safe to
return to. Since they had radioed ahead to George and Bob's Fire
Station, they had heard about George and Bob as appointed Volunteer
Sheriffs for the duration and knew this area was secured and that the
dead in that area had already been buried with the homes marked that
there were shallow graves in the back of each home and the names of the
dead on the house as per military protocol developed during Hurricane
Katrina and before. In this way mortuaries and relatives could gather
their dead whenever they were able to. And yet, the neighborhood would
be free from disease from rotting corpses out in the open.
As
Bob and George came out when they heard the bus, George found a tear
coming to his eye at seeing his wife and daughter coming off the bus. He
could tell they both had been crying but were now hanging tough as they
knew it was necessary. George and his wife and daughter fell into each
others arms and Bob could not help but letting a tear run down his face
because he and George had buried his wife and many of their neighbors
the last few hours. A Sargent Major with a pistol strapped to his hip
got off the bus along with a corporal from a local Army base carrying a
sub machine gun over his shoulder. The Sargent major handed a two way
hand crank radio to Bob since he was known to be a retired Army Colonel
and told him how to use it and what frequencies to transmit on for
different purposes. It turned out that the local Army base had most of
its weapons and transportation EMP ready for just such an occurrence. He
told Colonel Bob that NATO had been mobilized and that the U.S. bases
around the world were mostly returning home to defend the U.S. from any
further problems and to help gather and bury the dead in areas where
literally all able bodied men and women had died. There were many
children that needed to be gathered up various places that had been
playing out in school playing fields when this had occurred who had
survived all this and they needed to be found if they weren't with a
responsible adult. Orphanages needed to be organized even in their own
area. The Sargent major pulled off a motor driven Bicycle for Colonel
Bob off the rack on the back of the bus so he could perform his new
assignment as a local officer in the re-establishment of order to his
area.
George's wife while the Sargent Major and Colonel Bob
talked showed him a diagram of a way to make his motorcycle able to
operate again by using any household wiring that wasn't damaged in the
EMP. Since most motorcycles can be push started without using a starter,
work arounds had been created by Military mechanics to make motorcycles
and motorbikes usable again. This is much more problematic for most
cars, however, unless they are also light enough to push start and have
manual transmissions. Because this will not work with automatic
transmissions.
As the Sargent Major left again he said the
corporal would be guarding this area at night from looters with his
assault weapon and would be under Colonel Bob's direct command for the
present and that he would stay at the fire station during the day to
assist the Firemen keeping locals supplied and alive.
Colonel
Bob and George and his wife all sat in George's living room while
Colonel Bob told them of some of the changes. He said, "Well. The
Sargent Major told me of my responsibilities regarding our community. I
need some help gathering kids before it gets any darker to make sure
they are all okay from local schools. Also, I need to check houses
beyond where you and I went, George. George nodded not wanting his
daughter to know about how many people they had already buried that day.
Bob understood as well as he had grown kids himself that he also wanted
to know if they were alive. Bob said, "I need to radio to Denver where
my son lives and to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where my daughter lives and
see if anyone had seen them." George and his wife looked kind of
worried as Colonel Bob did this. In about ten minutes Colonel Bob was
sort of upset and he said, "Well. My son and daughter are okay but my
son's children are missing from their school and his wife died in the
garage getting into her car. So my grandchildren have to be found.
However, I can't do anything about that here on the Pacific Ocean but I
can help people here. Corporal Mark here and I are going to travel
around and try and find any kids and adults left alive in this area and
to do what we can to help for a few hours. After that, I'll drop
Corporal Mark off at the Fire station and introduce him to the fire
Captain and the firemen left alive there. George, do you have any
firearms and bullets?" George didn't like the sound of this but he knew
it was coming and said, "I have bullets for a pistol and an old Army M1
with bullets for that as well. But it hasn't been shot in about 20
years." Bob said, "Give it to Corporal Mark so he can test it as he is
trained in things like this." Corporal Mark took the rifle and put the
base of the rifle on the far side of a tree with his arms around the
tree and fired the rifle into the ground and said, "I think it is okay.
If it were going to explode the barrel it would have then. I think the
gun is usable and safe for now." George after seeing this technique of
checking for the safety of a gun did the same as the corporal for 3 more
shots before he felt safe using this rifle in an emergency. He knew the
pistol was usable because it had been shot in the last 5 years or so.
George handed the small caliber pistol to his wife and she strapped a
belt through the holster and put it on for safe keeping during the
night. He said, "Because there is no electricity I'll build a fire in
the fireplace but we are going to have to use candles. We should also
put wicks in any bacon grease from any bacon we eat tonight to make
bacon grease candles for use outside gathering wood at night, because
the Bacon has to be eaten tonight because it won't be safe tomorrow to
eat without refrigeration." George's wife said, "Will the canned goods
be safe?" George ran out the door to ask the corporal if he knew
anything about canned goods. The corporal said, "I have a card here that
tells me that you have to smell it before you open the can to see if
you can smell anything bad on the can. And you also need to look
carefully at the can to look for irregularities. But this soon you could
probably get away with eating most things in cans. It's going to be
after tomorrow when you really have to be careful." George said, "I
wonder how many Americans are going to die of spoiled food in the next
few days and weeks?" The Corporal said, "I can't think about that. We
all have to keep those still alive alive any way we can think of and
that's my assignment tonight for this area.
So, after a dinner
of bacon and anything else that looked ultimately perishable and putting
everything else in with the remaining ice in the freezer section of the
refrigerator, George and his wife started to read about how to convert
his motorcycle to use by converting household wiring for use in the
ignition system of his motorcycle. George's wife said, "Now that you
have filled all the bath tubs with water, how are we going to take
showers?" George said, "we can only sponge bathe for a while. We can go
into the bathroom with a few cups of water and a rag and basically wipe
off for now. The other choice is to go down to the ocean." His wife
nodded sadly. She went into the other room where her daughter was
reading by candlelight. George heard a few shots in the distance. He
hoped they were just warning shots scaring off looters and hoped no one
new was dead.
About a half an hour later Colonel Bob came
back to his house and came over and talked to George and said, "About
3/4 of the people in this area are dead. We didn't have time to bury
them all but we notified the fire station and surviving neighbors from
all around are being taught how to dig shallow graves that can easily be
dug up by authorities or relatives at sometime in the future. We put a
grave marker on the grave with the name and the date of the person if we
know who it is. I left Corporal Mark at the Fire Station. He will be
assigned as one of the guards of the station and will range out through
the area looking for looters. Every neighbor that I could I introduced
to him and also told them that I am the Military incident commander and
that I'm working alongside the local fire captain at our fire station."
After that, George and Colonel Bob sat in the living room taking turns
cranking the radio to see what they could find out locally and
nationally regarding all this. It appeared that most of the nation was
in a sort of panic and chaos. George and his family and Colonel Bob were
lucky to be in a nice surburban community along the Pacific Ocean where
at its worst they could boil seawater and distill it to have water to
drink in an emergency. Colonel Bob told George of a method where you
take seawater with a piece of plastic like they used to hold water in
the bath tubs and create a pool of it there near the ocean. Then using
black plastic on could create a solar distillery to create at the very
least a cup of pure drinking water on a sunny day or even more if you
had enough plastic to create a bigger pool and catch basin for pure
distilled water to drip down on into a separate small pool of pure
distilled water.
By listening to the hand crank radio that had
solar cells for collecting enough battery power during sunny days as
well, they found out that all the NATO countries had already mobilized
their Red Cross groups and military planes and were landing at major
airports throughout the U.S. with bottled water and MRE's (meals ready
to eat) to keep people alive in the short run. Also, tractors and skip
loaders were being shipped to bury the up to 100 million bodies of
Americans decomposing throughout the land. Though 2/3 of the population
likely was still alive, the priority now was to prevent the deaths of up
to 1/3 more during the next month from bad food and water panics and
looting and mayhem throughout the U.S. during this first month of basic
survival without electricity for the whole lower 48 states and parts of
Canada and Mexico. George and Colonel Bob listened very carefully as
they heard that a Cargo plane from Canada was arriving tomorrow morning
at 6 am at their local passenger jet airport. Colonel Bob said that he
wanted to see if he could get some radios to pass out to some of the
more distant neighbors in his area. He said, "Some of the older people
are starting to lose hope and don't see how they can survive this. Some
of the younger people likely are feeling like that as well. But most
people over about 25 to about 55 or 60 seem to be taking all this in
stride as much as possible. So, I'm going to get up and take a back pack
of some sort. Do you have a big backpack like a Kelty or something,
George, that I can borrow?" George said, "Yes. I used to be a Sierra
Backpacker so I have one big enough to be useful. However, you have to
be careful keeping your balance carrying a lot of weight. Remember it's
only a motorized bicycle. Also, do you need more gas before you go so
you can get all the way there and back on a single tank of gas?" Colonel
Bob said, "Thanks for reminding me, there's no gas gauge on this thing,
you're right. I think there is a reserve tank but I'm not used to using
a reserve spigot." George said, "There's a reserve spigot on my
motorcycle too, but I usually use the trip indicator like a gas gauge."
Colonel Bob said, "I've got one of those on the motorbike. Maybe if you
and I syphon some gas out of my car and put it into the motorbike I can
reset the trip indicator and use that like a gas gauge like you do on
your motorcycle."
George said, "By the way, what was all the
shooting about?" Colonel Bob looked glum and said, "Well. The looters
are beginning to show up from poorer communities. We were able to scare
them off with warning shots so far but by tomorrow it's possible we
might have to shoot some of the more crazy and desperate ones if they
come back and start making trouble again. I wish we had a phone line
working. That's one reason I want every house to have a two way hand
crank radio working as soon as possible. We need a network to protect
everyone here in this community now." George nodded.Then on the news
came another disturbing fact, all planes that were jets mostly crashed
at the time of the EMP or shortly thereafter in the U.S. This likely
meant that 6,000 planes crashed that were jets when the EMP happened. If
one took an average of 100 people on board all these passenger planes
then 600,000 died in those crashes alone. Whereas private planes because
they have mostly mechanical (without electrical and hydraulic assist)
rudders and flaps might have glided in safely if the occupants didn't
immediately get electrocuted and at least one person was left alive on
board who could actually land the private plane.
Another thing
that Colonel Bob and George spoke about, "Oh George. I almost forgot.
the last time I visited the Fire station the Fire Captain there told me
that the doomsday weapons hadn't gone off. Somehow someone was able to
disarm them." George said, "Well. That's a relief. That could have
really been a problem for the world to deal with on top of this."
Colonel Bob said, "I'm really beginning to realize that we are sort of
in a temporary stone age here in the U.S." And I'm not sure how we are
going to be able to pull out of this. We were already trying to survive a
Great Recession and now this." George said, "I think that the old ways
of thinking have to be rendered obsolete to make any sense of this at
all, Bob." Colonel Bob said, "What to you mean, George?" George said,
"Well. What if you were in a plane that crashed? Does it really matter
what is happening in the rest of the world if you don't survive.?If if
you are way out in the sticks trying to survive nothing else matters at
that point but whether you survive or not." Colonel Bob said, "So, what
you're saying is that our whole country are like survivors of a plane
crash in the wilderness with no one to help them?" George said, "Sort
of. Yes."
Colonel Bob said, "So, how do you reconcile other
countries helping us now?" George said, "As far as you an I are
concerned, it is as if there are about 100 to 200 people trying to
survive remotely and only one person is hiking in with food. That one
person can't save everyone. But they might save 5 or 10 people's lives.
You would need 25 people hiking in and helping those 100 people for it
really to make a difference." Colonel Bob said, "I think you are right,
George. That is probably the best way of thinking about this that I have
heard yet."
Colonel Bob said, "So, how would you see the
survival strategy for the man in the street of our nation?" George
thought a moment and said, "Well. I would say it is sort of Nobles
Oblige which is the "obligation of those with the means to help those
that don't wherever possible." Colonel Bob said, "And how does that play
out in real time?" George said, "Well. That's the million dollar
question isn't it?" Colonel Bob smiled and said, "Yes. That is the real
test of any nation in how it treats the have nots during a real crisis
like this one."
George said, "I'm thinking that if we get
enough help from our military in Alaska and Hawaii and overseas
deployments that it might greatly reduce casualties here in the U.S. Do
you think we will have a problem with cannibalism in the cities?"
Colonel Bob said, "Well. When people have various drugs and no food that
is always going to be a problem isn't it? Even though most people when
they come down might have to commit suicide or self destruct in other
ways, that could become a problem for Americans especially who are very
spoiled and not used to hardships of any kind. So, this will really be a
test for the survival and basic sanity and order of the U.S."
Colonel Bob said, "What do you think about help from the outside world?"
George said, "Well. All nations might be vulnerable because the main
policeman nation isn't there to protect them during this time. So likely
nations like Iran and North Korea and to some degree China might run
roughshod over the rest of the world during these times. We'll have to
wait and see what the outcome is while everyone is off balance worldwide
from this. Remember what happened when the Earthquake and Tsunami hit
Japan and none of the big companies had 24 hour electricity anymore. And
then on top of that the floods in Thailand stopped all kinds of
electronics and other car production there? Many cars couldn't be
manufactured easily in every part of the world for a long time after
those two events. Having the whole U.S. down will have a similar effect
on multiple levels worldwide." Colonel Bob realized George spent a whole
lot of time thinking about these sorts of things whereas Bob was more
of an in the moment with enough discipline to solve any situation kind
of guy. He didn't like to think about all the details until some task
was assigned to him. So, George and Bob were a contrast in two styles of
dealing with the problems of life as they arose.
Just about
this time both men were sort of made sick by one of George's dogs
sauntering by with a human hand in its mouth. George hoped it wasn't
Bob's wife's hand from her buried body. They were allowing the dogs
more freedom in their neighborhood so they could warn better of incoming
looters and strange people. George and Bob now wore Colt .45 pistols
given to them by the Army and badges as Volunteer Sheriff's Deputies.
However, their duty was limited to their own neighborhood and the area
covered by their nearest fire station.
Bob said, "Damn it I hope that isn't my wife's hand!"
George's
german shepherd was old but he was also really smart. So when George said, "Where did you find it, Boy?" the
german shepherd
mix started walking to where he found it. About two blocks away they
found what looked to be a looter that had been shot by one of the
locals. Unfortunately, the local had died too. Luckily, (or not luckily)
the Dog had chosen the looter's hand to take rather than the neighbor
that the dog knew. George said, "This is awful! Here Boy! Give me the
hand!" And both men set to dig shallow graves in the back yard of that
home so the hand was buried with the looter in the back yard. On the
front of the house was written the deceased owner's name and the word
"Looter" because they had no other explanation for what had occurred and
no police to call to investigate. This turned both of their moods more
glum and they didn't speak much the rest of the day.
About 5
days after "The End of Electricity" the water to both Colonel Bob's
house and George's house stopped running for good. So, they both knew
that this was going to make life more difficult. George and Bob put
plastic containers at all of their downspouts because most nights there
was dew coming off the roof and down the downspouts because they were on
the ocean. Also, some nights fog would cover the trees and plants and
roofs with moisture and some of that could be collected too. George and
Bob and George's wife and daughter read books a lot more than they used
to to keep sane and to keep going. So, each of them started reading
books until George's wife said, "Why don't we read a book to each other
so it is something we can all share? So, they began reading a book
together in the afternoons. They also found that it was best to go to
bed with the sun and to get up with the sun. So, everything they did
started to be based more on when the sun came up and went down than
before when there was electricity. Besides, Candles burn down and
flashlights need batteries and eventually they were both only used for
emergencies. Since there were deer in the area that lived there in
profusion one day Bob said, "We should shoot and dress a buck. If we
only shoot bucks the local herds of deer can replenish themselves
because they only need one strong and wily buck to impregnate all the
females. Since George and his wife were having some gum problems because
of not enough live foods they agreed. Also, George remembered about a
lady from London that was a friend of his in the 1980s that had lived
through the blitz there in London by eating lawn clippings in her meals
as salad. She said that people who didn't do this and didn't have live
food often died during those times. So, George told this to Bob who
spread the idea around the neighborhood about how to stay alive during
these times without fresh live food. So, George got out his M1 and gave
it to Bob who was a marksman and a hunter and he brought down a buck
nearby the next morning and George walked his new contraption which was
two bicycles tied together with a piece of plywood for hauling heavy
things and pulled the buck home on that and dressed it on the telephone
pole outside and allowed it to bleed out. So, for the next few weeks
they had venison and his wife found a jerky recipe and so she made jerky
with the rest before it went bad. George said, "There is a way of
making buckskin where you cure it with deer brains to make it soft. I
studied with a Native American Medicine man who told me about this. Bob
sort of looked at George Wide eyed and said, "Yes. We probably could do
that but we also need to maintain decorum for when the Red Cross and
help arrives in this area.
Two weeks after the END of
Electricity the Red Cross arrived with bottled water and a vehicle
provided by the U.S. military. On board was one of the "doctors without
borders" who looked at everyone in the area and wrote down all the names
of the living so it could be entered into a database of who was alive
and still kicking in this area of California. The doctor also checked
all the graves of bodies and checked the names that were known to have
died in the area and added that to the database as well. They left 5
cases of bottled water for every house with 2 or more people in
residence. They left MRE's for about 1 month for each home for each
person and told them only to eat canned goods as a last resort. Then
they left with the firm intention of coming back within one month to
leave another months worth of water and food.
The next day a
United Nations Relief helicopter landed in front of Colonel Bob and
George's house and asked them both if they had had problems with
looters. Bob and George said that except for the dead looter who killed
their neighbor that they had buried that they had been able to scare
most looters off with a couple of shots over their heads with a pistol
or rifle. The officer said, "Did you hear the shots that killed the
neighbor and looter?" Colonel Bob said, "There are shots that we hear in
this area and surrounding areas every night so we never know which is
just a warning shot and which is a wounding or lethal shot. There is
shooting every night. The UN officer said, "How many shots a night
approximately?" George spoke up and said, "Oh, I would say we hear an
average of about 100 shots a night but the sound likely carries about 10
miles around us and we are only responsible for about 1 mile in all
directions. The Fire Station has about 10 sets of Volunteer Deputy
Sherriffs like us now that keep the peace 24 hours a day. But we have to
be called somehow to be able to protect people. There are no phones and
we have only hand crank two way radios."
The UN Officer said,
"We are ordering solar panels so you can charge your walkie talkies so
you will have the battery power to leave them on all the time. In the
meantime here are about 20 walkie talkies for your area and some already
charged rechargable batteries. Both Bob and George really smiled at
this idea. There hopefully would be no more neighbors dying at the hands
of looters.
George said, "The only problem with that is that
we get a lot of fog here and it isn't sunny all the time like it tends
to be inland."
The UN Officer said, "Well. I have something I
could give you if you have a bicycle. It's a recharger run by a bicycle
on a stand. Would that be helpful?" George nodded and said, "But the
solar panel recharger we could use too." The officer said, "Okay. We
will get you one of those too." George wasn't entirely convinced that
they would get the solar Charger too.
Colonel Bob said after
they left the UN Officer, "You know, George what he told me in
confidence? " George said "What?" Colonel Bob said, "They think the
terrorist that did this to the U.S. had ties to both Iran and North
Korea." George said, "What does that mean?" Colonel Bob said, "Well.
What it means is that this terrorist died trying to launch this thing in
Russia and then when people got one of his fingers they were able to
trace where he was from and what his path towards all this actually was.
George said, "Does that mean that Iran and North Korea (either or both)
were directly involved?" Colonel Bob thought carefully about this
question. He said, "No. It just means that he has been both places for
several months in each place." George said, "Well. Then if there is no
way the governments can be implicated it doesn't mean anything at all."
Colonel Bob said, "Tell that to people who lost relatives in this."
George said, "Yes. We definitely live in a whole new world don't we?"
Colonel Bob said, "I hope it doesn't get any crazier than it has
already." George said, "Me too."
Then they noticed things were
starting to get more organized. There started to be daily patrols by
car or truck by UN troops and soon the fire station was given a Windmill
to set up to generate electricity. All the able bodied men and some
women helped assemble the large windmill that stood over 100 feet high
with the huge blades there next to the fire station. At that altitude at
the ocean there was almost always a breeze on shore or off shore or
even north or south or some other variation. So then, a line was run
from the fire station to as many of the neighbors and George and Bob's
house that were within a certain distance from the Fire Station. Also, a
large bank of storage batteries was installed that was connected
(potentially to both wind and solar) so when one wasn't charging the
large battery system if it was daylight out the solar cells kicked in or
vice-versa. Solar Cells from China were delivered to the Fire Station
as well for when the winds weren't blowing. So when there was enough
power the fire station would turn it on to all the neighbors of their
area including George and Bob's house.
So, now it was two
months after "The End" or "The End of Life as we Knew it to be" and they
now had electricity sometimes once again. Later that week the fire
station brought a ZAP re-chargeable Electric Pickup truck for George and
Colonel Bob to drive to the nearest Supermarket that was now an MRE
(Meals Ready to Eat) storage area to pick up food for their neighborhood
and various other duties to their neighborhoods. The nine other sets
of Volunteer County Sheriffs Deputies surrounding their Fire Station
also were given the use of the United Nations ZAP rechargeable Electric
Pickup truck as well to do the same thing and to patrol their area to
keep all their neighborhoods safe as well. So, all ten sets of Sheriffs
Volunteer deputies rotated through the use of this Zap pick-up
rechargeable truck.
The United Nations had obviously given a
lot of thought to this. Since the old infrastructure had all been
destroyed in the EMP it was infinitely more useful to set up a new
infrastucture than to replace and repair the old one. There would be no
land lines for phones anymore (at least at first and maybe ever). It
would all now be first Walkie Talkies with a few miles range and then
stronger ones and short wave and then back to microwave towers for Cell
phones all charged by wind or solar or gas or diesel generators. The
next day a diesel portable United Nations Generator arrived for when
wind or solar failed in their area. The next day 100 gallon water tanks
arrived from NATO to haul in the Zap electric Trucks to everyone so they
could once again have sponge baths, and more easily wash their dishes.
10 miles away a NATO desalinating portable system was desalinating
Seawater until all the cars blocking roads could be towed off major
roads by fire trucks or pushed by Army trucks off all highways not open
yet. Once this was done large Military convoys of water trucks would
suck up water from nearby water sources (mainly rivers and dams) and
haul drinking and wash water to people in their area until replacement
pumps for previous water systems could be obtained from overseas or
Canada or Mexico.
Outhouses and Latrines were still going to
be used throughout the area for some time though because there still
wasn't enough available water to flush toilets or to take anything but
the shortest of showers. The United Nations had also brought things that
looked a lot like big hot water bottles that you left out in the sun
during the day and then while it was still warm from the sun tied to
the edge of your shower or shower head in your shower to take a very
short shower which immediately made everyone in the area a whole lot
less grouchy by being able to be completely clean and less itchy.
Once a month a United Nations truck came by with "Doctors Without
Borders" and medicines for everyone in their area. (Many people had
already died from their prescriptions running out in the Fire Station
ten neighborhood districts even before the Doctors had arrived the first
time) and others had gotten very confused or ill without their
medicines as well since George and Bob lived in a fairly well to do area
in which a lot of people were either retired or semi-retired. And most
of the people who lived here had college degrees and had been Military
officers, CEO's of businesses, teachers, doctors etc. So, there was a
wealth of experiential knowledge in this area. One one level since no
banks were open yet because there was no electricity network existing
yet it didn't really matter a whole lot who these people were because
money didn't really exist again yet because most banks before this
existed on a primarily electronic basis. So, if you didn't have money or
food or things in your home already likely you might not have made it
alive through the first month anyway. So, one reason a good group of
these people in this area had survived is that those that survived all
had to be more than 6 to 12 feet from any metal in order to have
survived. And since these pieces of property were large it was more
possible to be more than 6 to 12 feet away from any metal than in other
areas. So, for example, people who survived were walking their dogs,
jogging or possibly gardening when they had to throw anything metal
away from their person before the "closeness to Metal" killed them.
George saw a person whose Smart phone had melted. He thought it was an
Iphone by the shape that melted into the man's leg. The man said it had
burned his fingers as he threw it against a tree to make it stop burning
him. George was secretly incredibly grateful to have forgotten his
IPhone in his car where it melted there all by itself from the EMP now
one month ago. He wondered how many people had had their cell phones and
smart phones injure or maim them when the EMP hit all the lower 48
states and parts of Canada and Mexico.
Colonel Bob because he
was a "Called UP" retired Army officer came over to Bob's house and
George Noticed he was kind of pale. As George said to him, "What's the
matter?" Colonel Bob sort of motioned George to speak to him outside
where the women couldn't hear them. George said, "What's wrong now,
Bob?" And Bob said, "I've got some really bad news, George. Most of the
States directly under the Hydrogen Bomb are all dead. In fact everything
has died pretty much including all animals and plants in the Central
States. And there are areas as far west as Arizona and as far East as
Louisiana where everything is dead: humans, birds, animals---
Everything!" George was kind of in shock so he just blurted it out:
"Well, I once lived in Mt. Shasta when in " July 15, 1991 –
Dunsmuir, California:
A 20,000-gallon tank railroad car containing the herbicide metam sodium
derailed from a northbound Southern Pacific freight train, tumbling off
of the bridge over the Sacramento river at the Cantara Loop and
rupturing on the rocks below. The car's entire load spilled into the
river. Virtually every aquatic organism on a 40-mile stretch of river
was killed.
[6] end quote from 1991 list of train accidents from "Wikipedia"
George said, "When this happened every organism died for 40 miles that
had been living there from time immemorial. But within a few months
nearby River creatures from upstream replaced their now dead and extinct
cousins." Colonel Bob was noticeably shaken but started to recover a
little bit. He said, "So there might be hope for the future for those
areas?" George said, "I think most of what we were hit by was the EMP. I
think the radiation mostly stayed on the very upper end of the
atmosphere of earth. Likely all that radiation will trickle down through
winds and rains universally for thousands and millions of years to come
down upon earth. I don't really know what that will mean for life on
earth. But the initial EMP I think did its damage to everything within a
millisecond or so about as fast as a digital picture being taken or
something like that." Colonel Bob laughed a very dark laugh in gallows
humor and said, "If you were trying to reassure me that didn't do it. I
was fine until I realized that all or most of the radiation from that
hydrogen bomb blast 100 miles up will harm all life on earth for
thousands and millions of years to come. That's pretty Sick, George."
George said, "I didn't have anything to do with it, Bob. I'm just very
good at logic. I used to be a computer programmer, you know." Colonel
Bob said, "You are as intelligent as I am disciplined as an officer. You
are my research man from now on, George." They both laughed.
George said, "The other thing I was thinking about is that probably at
least 1/2 of all satellites were permanently fried, destroyed or
whatever depending upon their proximity to the 100+ megaton load of the
Hydrogen bomb. So, either the concussion of the explosion would send
them banging into each other since there are literally thousands of them
out there, most inactive and old, so probably GPS devices don't work
very well worldwide for planes and ships and hikers now or at all
because they wouldn't be able to give accurate triangulations between
satellites because you need three acccurately stationary positioned GPS
satellites to get you within 3 feet of your present location on earth
using lattitude and Longitude co-ordinates. So, that's likely been gone
for most of earth between about Hawaii and Alaska and Europe at the very
least. Maybe it would be okay from about Columbia south to the tip of
South America or something like that. Bob sort of looked at George and
said, "I don't think the U.S. could afford to replace those satellites
now. George said, "Well. Maybe Europe and Canada and Australia and Japan
or a consortium of nations will get together to replace the GPS and
weather satellites that have been damaged." Bob said, "Well, This
explains all the shooting stars we all saw for the first month after the
EMP at night."
The next few weeks were fairly uneventful.
They went to bed still mostly with the sundown and got up with the dawn
because of the long habit of doing this to save resources. However,
every now and again when the wind was blowing good and they knew there
was plenty of electricity in their batteries they stayed up late and
neighbors got together to play music or listen to music or short wave or
other programs from around the globe that one could now obtain on
radios given to them by the military or the fire station. So, the
neighborhood became more like a settlement or even a family of families.
And one night during one of these get togethers there was something on
the news about trying to open up individual banks and allowing people
once again to visit the banks and to be able to get out money and to buy
things once again. Though George wondered what it was that people would
buy outside of garage sales, still it was something new to do as things
got back to "normal?". Of course, the old normal was gone forever. And
the new "normal" was sort of a work in progress every day now. He had
heard some news that since water pumps had been started again on nearby
farmland some of the farmers were going to try to grow crops once again.
The hardest part hadn't been the water, it had actually been trying to
find an engine for a tractor for planting and harvesting of crops.
Someone had donated one from a part of Canada that hadn't been hit with
the EMP and everyone was very happy to have at least one local farm in
the county back in the business of growing food at least for the local
county area. No one had any imagination that there would be any way to
ship the food outside of the county. So, because of this it was thought
that taking about 100 acres and dividing it between useful crops for the
county to consume would be the most useful thing to do. So, for this
first farm in the county to go back into production this is what they
did. They also heard that they were one of the first farms in the state
to start growing food once again. Since everything living was dead in
most of the Central States this wasn't going to happen there anytime
soon. All plant and animal and bird life that was above ground or water
when the EMP hit was now dead in those states.
When George got
his Kawasaki 650 dualsport running again he was pretty happy. He had
found the instructions not completely useful for his bike but had
finally adapted them to use on his. However, the motor bike that Colonel
Bob was running had already drained about 1/2 the gas from one of
Colonel Bob's vehicles and almost 1/2 of the gas George had in one of
his vehicles. So, he wondered about firing up his motorcycle because it
burned more gas than the motorbike even though it could obviously carry
more weight. So George started to experiment with using the rear wheel
section of one of his bicycles with a piece of plywood between the
motorcycle and the bicycle wheel so he could carry more weight. He
wasn't happy with the results yet because it seemed kind of precarious
and dangerous unless he had higher voltages and an arc welder which he
didn't have now. So, sometimes he would use this contraption just to go
to gather firewood in the forest and just carry sort of light loads for
now. That was only driving it about a mile or 2 with no traffic on the
roads except for walkers and bicyclists for the most part. When people
saw he had his motorcycle running they often stopped him and asked about
how he got it running and he told them that if they had a stick shift
car or motorbike or motorcycle that he might be able to help them get it
running from what he now knew through rewiring his motorcycle with
household wiring. For now, he was push starting his motorcycle because
he couldn't replace the battery which had exploded along with every
battery in every car, motorcycle, or vehicle in the U.S. parts of Canada
and parts of Mexico. So, he had figured out (with the Army schematic's
help) a workaround so his motorcycle worked a lot like others did during
World War II when they didn't have batteries at all. He basically only
needed enough electricity to get a spark on time to his spark plug on
his Thumper(single cylinder) dualsport . He wasn't sure he could run his
motorcycle at night though because the headlights might take too much
electricity to get a good spark and to keep it going. The thought
reminded him of when his generator had gone out in the 1970s and he had
had to drive in the middle of the night from Long Beach to San Diego in
his VW bug on Battery alone. Whenever his headlights were on the cars
spark got less and the car started to go slower. So, if he didn't see
any other cars he turned off his headlights because it was between 2 and
4 am in the morning traveling down Interstate 5 towards San Diego and
home. Somehow, as a college age kid he made it all the way home that
way, just turning the lights on and off enough to see and to get home in
one piece alive and well. He wished he was back there now. It made him
sick every day to contemplate 100 million to 200 million American lives
snuffed out these last few months now.
It was now November, the
Electromagnetic Pulse from the 100 Plus Megaton Hydrogen Bomb had gone
off about 2 weeks after the 4th of July. Bob was getting more and more
depressed from losing his wife but was spending more time with one of
the widows in the area that had lost her husband within a month of the
EMP, and she wasn't a person that would do well without someone to take
care of her. So, even though externally Bob was okay, he needed someone
there as a companion to help emotionally take care of him too. So, as
friends (at first) they decided that she would cook for him and take
care of him and that he would protect and defend her as well. This was a
workable friendship and survival grouping. Also, her husband had been
retired military as well. So, she knew the drill.
Though
there had been a lot of hope in setting up workable microwave towers for
cellphones, in the end that had just proved to be a bridge too far for
almost everywhere in the U.S. So, they had gone back to using satellites
between fire stations beyond the range of radios to do most of the
survival communication regarding residents of various areas. In the end
people were getting worried because winter was coming on, and in this
area of the coast the lowest temperatures (in the mid to low 30s
Fahrenheit) would be coming now in November and after. George hoped they
didn't get any 100 mph winds off the ocean like they did every few
years because keeping the roads open (except for bicycles) was going to
be a problem because of all the trees that fall in those high winds and
because of the lack of enough gasoline everywhere in the U.S. at
present and not enough chain saws that had been reconfigured and still
worked or could be made to work (since all petroleum refineries in the
U.S. were still down and not likely to be operational for another 5
years or so. Petroleum refineries were dependent upon large power
stations working but they were not a priority in the U.S. right now.
There were much bigger problems to be solved like moving people to
warmer climates so they all didn't die in the northern winters of cold
and snow without enough wood to burn to stay warm for that many people.
In the end there just wasn't enough dead and dying wood to burn for
everyone to stay in place. People just had to migrate south to survive. A
few could stay but very few were prepared enough in this day and after
the EMP. And cutting down any more live trees would just make more of
the U.S. a desert.
And, though MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) kept a
body alive, that body if it was over about 30 or 35 years of age wasn't
going to be very happy if it had to eat (only MRE's) through the
winter. So, everyone kind of knew that the only way many of the older
people (older than 30) were actually going to survive cold northern
winters was if they migrated further south. Since many had never lived
anywhere else it was believed that they would see an incredible number
of people dying this winter in the Northernmost parts of the U.S.
without electricity for heating, fuel oil for heating, natural gas for
heating and good, live and healthy food for eating. Because when the
buses came to move the people south they really were not allowed to take
much with them. So, they all knew that their houses would be vandalized
while they were gone even if they returned in the spring on another
military bus to their northland homes.
One night Emma (the
widow) who had moved in with Colonel Bob and Colonel Bob came over next
door to George and his wife and daughter's house and Bob and George got
to talking while all the ladies gathered in the other room talking out
their issues with survival now in the U.S.
George started out
and said, "Y'know Bob, this time we now live in reminds me in some ways
of the 1880s to about the 1920s. We don't have electricity or plumbing
everywhere. We don't have lines of electricity running everywhere. But
in addition to this we don't have operational farms except where someone
donated a tractor or they have gone back to using draft horses to plow
and to haul wood and such once again. And even there how do you feed a
horse unless you have a pasture? And how can a horse work hard with only
pasture land to graze on. That means that only when the pasture's green
could the horse have enough to eat to feel good enough to work and get
anything done at all? Bob said, "Yeah. It's sort of like we live in this
nether world where we have some of the things we had before but it is
different than anything before in history. Nothing like what happened
here ever happened on this scale before where 100 million people die on a
continent and then another 100 million people die from bad food,
accidents, looters and mayhem, starvation, and no medicines or hospitals
working outside of basic fire stations and police stations most places.
Sure, there are military hospitals still working some places but they
are only the remote exception and not the rule. Most places there is
nothing. So, even if someone cuts their hand sawing wood or steps on a
nail they can die from it because there are no shots available or
antibiotics within a month or two. So, we are seeing things that would
have only been an afternoon in a hospital turn into a death within a
week or a month. It's pretty sick to watch. From the records I have been
keeping George we lost 75% of the residents that were here when it hit
in July. Since then we have lost 15% more people. So, that means that of
100% of the people left alive here on that July day we only have 10%
alive today. How many are we going to lose this winter from freezing to
death alone or by accidents? Theoretically we could lose this winter
most of the people over 65 just because they might not have enough wood
to burn to stay warm even though the temperatures don't even go below 30
degrees Fahrenheit here almost ever!" George felt kind of stunned by
this revelation. He hadn't been thinking that much in this direction. He
had sort of avoided it to keep his and his wife's and daughters spirits
up. So, this all sort of hit him like a ton of bricks and he began to
cry. Not out loud but he began to tear up and realized he just couldn't
deal with this ongoing stress anymore. Bob saw this was all too much for
George to deal with anymore. So, he quickly changed the subject to
something less defeatist to talk about.
George struggled for
equilibrium. He realized it was partly the bottle of good wine they
opened to enjoy the evening and told Bob as much. George began to talk
about a different but related subject. He said, "Well. Since they set up
a Satellite internet computer for the public to use part of the day, I
have been going over there to find out about my friends and relatives
nationwide and worldwide on the life and death database that has been
set up. Did you know that there are messages from friends and relatives
all over the world connected to almost every name living and dead there?
Bob nodded and said, "They only found 2 of my 3 grandkids alive. I
never told you that." George said, "I'm really sorry to hear that, Bob."
Bob said, "Yeah. It really sucks. But the good news is that none of my
children or their children or any more of there spouses has died."
George said, "I'm glad to hear that, Bob." George once again tried to
move the subject somewhere else. He said, "Should we allow relatives of
people who died here to come claim their homes?" Bob said, "This is kind
of a can of worms, George." There is no way we can actually verify very
well who anybody really is anymore. There aren't electronic identities
as such through DMV's nationwide (Departments of Motor Vehicles in each
State which use driver's licenses as identity cards used within the
U.S.) anymore. So, how could we be sure it isn't someone just trying to
come here who is nuts to kill people or steal food or something else
nuts?" George said, "That's pretty paranoid, Bob." Bob said, "You have
never been in a war time situation before, George, have you? People can
get extremely crazy and desperate in war time situations just like this
one. Everyone isn't a stable survivor like you and I. Some people just
go feral completely." George said, "I guess you are right. I never
served in the military." Bob said, "Even though I have, a lot of it was
pretty traumatic in wartime situations so this taught me more than I
want to know about this sort of thing." George said, "Well then, it's
good we have you to protect us with the truth so we aren't naive." Bob
looked at George and said, "I guess so."
Note: As to the
technological correctness of all this, so far the only concern I might
have is in regarding metal in one's mouth in teeth fillings or metal
plates in the head from previous injuries or metal in various places
throughout the body from injuries and repairs over the years. ANY metal
in one's body could prove fatal when one couldn't separate from the
metal immediately during the EMP burst. Or for example, the gold in
one's teeth during a large EMP of this sort might melt the gold out of
one's mouth though this might be less likely with silver or another
metal. And if gold melted it would likely fall through the chin area
unless you spit it out which might damage your tongue. So, metal of any
kind in one's body could be fatal or permanently or temporarily maiming
during an EMP of this size. Also, proximity to the source (how close you
are to the source of the EMP) would also give varying amounts of
strength of the EMP. I'm theorizing that an EMP is sort of like a radio
or TV transmission. It would be the strongest near the source and taper
out like when you are listening to a radio station when you start to
travel out of range in a car or other vehicle. So what would actually
happen would depend upon the strength and duration of the EMP and your
location in relation to it when it happened and also whether you were
inside or outside or underground or in the air when the EMP occurred.
Also, a tooth implant that has been lodged in the upper jaw might be
fatal if static voltage and current from the EMP transferred upward and
through the top of the skull on top of the head. Since many more people
are having joint replacements and teeth implants when root canals fail
this all would become more of a problem for society if and when an
actual EMP of this size and duration occurred.
I wrote DEATH
METAL as if it happened to the U.S. However, it could happen anywhere on
earth equally from a probability point of view. And if it ever happens
anywhere it could eventually happen everywhere because of the nature of
people and revenge and things getting out of control and because of
precedent. So, it is in everyone's best interest that this doesn't
happen anywhere because once the precedent is established there then is
the possibility of this happening other places and eventually
everywhere. And at that point civilization likely would end because
technology likely could not be maintained properly at that point. Unless
you call civilization what we had before Christ was born, likely you
and I would not want to see that happen.
Also: If you are an
intuitive or precognitive psychic like me or if you have deja vu visions
of the future (I have had these also in my life) sometimes it is
possible to write about what you don't want to see happen and thereby
uncreate it. This may or may not be possible with earth changes like
Earthquakes because there is so much more energy involved. However,
whenever you are dealing with people, if you show people a future, or
even potential future, some will pray and change it to something better,
while others will do things to make sure a really bad future doesn't
ever happen. So, even though to many of you, writing about something you
don't want to happen might not make sense, it actually works in a very
real scientific way to prevent futures that no one wants. So, for
example, books like:
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Or movies like:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the Beach (
1959) is a
post-apocalyptic drama film based on
Nevil Shute's 1957
novel of the same name. The film features
Gregory Peck (USS
Sawfish captain Dwight Lionel Towers),
Ava Gardner (Moira Davidson),
Fred Astaire (scientist Julian—John in the novel—Osborne) and
Anthony Perkins (Royal Australian Navy lieutenant Peter Holmes). It was directed by
Stanley Kramer, who won the 1960
BAFTA for best director.
Ernest Gold won the
1960 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Score. It was
remade as an
Australian television film by
Southern Star Productions in 2000. end quote from Wikipedia.
All books and movies like this actually help to prevent nuclear
holocausts in real time by scaring the hell out of everyone including
governments.
Later: ON a different note when I wrote
5 Billion Less People on Earth?
I began to see that when oil ends (if it ended suddenly without
warning) it could be a lot like what I wrote here. There would be no
fuels at any price available (except possibly corn and cane ethanols and
fuel cells and water as a fuel (hydrogen and oxygen H2O). So, I went
back and looked at what happened to George and Colonel Bob and George's
family and neighbors and saw a similar scenario without any oil products
at all. Food could not be transported or grown easily. There would be
no gas or diesel for driving food or transporting food, people or
anything. So people would have to go to bicycles, windmills and solar
arrays for electricity, and horses for growing food(at least in the
short run worldwide) which would start to greatly reduce world
populations. Places in Desert areas like Phoenix, Las Vegas, Albuquerque
etc. would have to greatly reduce in size and people would have to
migrate towards aquifers that could be brought to the surface by
windmills or to move near rivers once again. People who lived in
climates that got really cold couldn't really be there in the winters
unless they had enough wood for their wood stoves to make it through the
winter as well as enough food in their cold cellars or canned to make
it through until the spring when they could grow or buy some more food.
So, even though 100 million people wouldn't die in an EMP, what might
come if oil suddenly stops within 15 to 25 years in some ways also
resembles what happens to some degree in "Death Metal". However, if
civilizations on earth have enough time to adapt to the loss of oil it
will be less catastrophic. Here is the article I was working on called "
5 Billion Less People on Earth? 
