...what do you do?
Am I nuts? Every single time I rode last year I was constantly thinking about that. Like if some piss ant third world country detonated an EMP device over the rockies and we were out sledding .... our sleds, GPS', phones, everything would be dead.
And nobody makes a true set of collapsable snow shoes.
THis was driving me nuts last year and now that its the season again its driving me nuts again. I wasn't ever worried about it riding dirt last summer.
Odd.
I don't know. Paranoid delusions are wild.
If this is a subject that interests you, then I suggest you read this book.
it is the best written "Primer" on the subject out there.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/one...9780765327253&itm=1&usri=one%2bsecond%2bafter
Overview
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
Months before publication,
One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of
On the Beach,
Fail Safe and
Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.
Publishers Weekly
In this entertaining apocalyptic thriller from Forstchen (
We Look Like Men of War), a high-altitude nuclear bomb of uncertain origin explodes, unleashing a deadly electromagnetic pulse that instantly disables almost every electrical device in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. Airplanes, most cars, cellphones, refrigerators-all are fried as the country plunges into literal and metaphoric darkness. History professor John Matherson, who lives with his two daughters in a small North Carolina town, soon figures out what has happened. Aided by local officials, Matherson begins to deal with such long-term effects of the disaster as starvation, disease and roving gangs of barbarians. While the material sometimes threatens to veer into jingoism, and heartstrings are tugged a little too vigorously, fans of such classics as
Alas, Babylon and
On the Beach will have a good time as Forstchen tackles the obvious and some not-so-obvious questions the apocalypse tends to raise. Newt Gingrich provides a foreword.
(Mar.)
