EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) is again in the news, but not the old-world news.  For those who aren’t familiar with what an EMP is, I will explain.  An electromagnetic pulse is a natural occurring event caused by solar storms.  The can also be generated by nuclear explosions above the earth’s atmosphere and by EMP weapons.

While an EMP event, weather man-made or from nature is not deadly to people, the long term affects caused by the aftermath certainly can be.  An EMP wave basically fries all electronic equipment.  Our power grid would be shut down, along with our water filtration and sewage systems.  Transportation of all sorts with the exception of the four legged kind would come to a halt.  Food processing would stop.  There would be no calling 911, FEMA, SEMO, or any other disaster relief organization because the phones would not work.

During last year’s EMP summit, I learned that it would take ten years to rebuild the power grid in the US in the event of an EMP disturbance.  One of the reasons it would take so long is we no longer manufacture the transformers.  The manufacturing has been out-sourced to China.

It has been predicted if a major EMP wave hit the United States, we could easily lose one third of our population.  Our society as we have come to know it would cease to exist, and the picture would not be pretty.  William Forstchen wrote a very good novel called One Second After, which describes one community’s life after such a mishap.

Last week the Senate dropped a plan by Congress which would have prepared the US in the event of an EMP attack.  For more, see www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=188605.

Last year I had the opportunity to participate in the first EMP conference which was held in Buffalo New York.  I am bringing this up now because

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