After Katrina, Johnson says FEMA realized the main reason for these doomsday bunkers was probably not an enemy missile anymore – it was Mother Nature. Millions of federal dollars have since built a network of nearly 80 high-tech emergency shelters to withstand hurricanes, tornadoes, solar flares - even an electromagnetic pulse that could cripple the nation's power grid.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
FEMA built 80 high tech emergency broadcast centers
"That served as kind of a staple in
the community and a source of information for citizens when a number of
the other broadcast facilities were off the air," says Antwane Johnson,
who heads the emergency public alerts and warnings program for FEMA.
After Katrina, Johnson says FEMA realized the main reason for these doomsday bunkers was probably not an enemy missile anymore – it was Mother Nature. Millions of federal dollars have since built a network of nearly 80 high-tech emergency shelters to withstand hurricanes, tornadoes, solar flares - even an electromagnetic pulse that could cripple the nation's power grid.
I wrote about an "accidental" electromagnetic pulse in:
When I was 14 I read "Alas Babylon" which scared the hell out of me then in 1962.
After Katrina, Johnson says FEMA realized the main reason for these doomsday bunkers was probably not an enemy missile anymore – it was Mother Nature. Millions of federal dollars have since built a network of nearly 80 high-tech emergency shelters to withstand hurricanes, tornadoes, solar flares - even an electromagnetic pulse that could cripple the nation's power grid.
I wrote about an "accidental" electromagnetic pulse in:
When I was 14 I read "Alas Babylon" which scared the hell out of me then in 1962. 
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