which shtf are you preparing for?

[denvernative321]

All of the above

[BushMasterBoy]

I have a military background in electronic countermeasures. Truth is regardless of the protection provided (short of being deep underground) most electrical and electronic equipment will not function if the electromagnetic pulse is strong enough. The Faraday shield is more important in containing electromagnetic signals that may impart intelligence value. Thus keeping data sniffers from reading the emanations from your computer.
Protecting your vehicle from EMP could prove difficult if your vehicle was close to the source of the pulse. The cables from the battery to the starter could melt from the induced current of the pulse.
Military aircraft have special components that direct the pulse away from critical systems. Alot of control systems now use fiber optics, as fiber is basically immune to the effects of a large electromagnetic pulse.
So...how do you protect your vehicle from the effects of EMP? Use a quick disconnect switch like those sold for RV batteries that has a switch incorporated into the battery terminal clamp. That makes sure the pulse doesn't short circuit your starting system. Also make sure the vehicle is grounded to earth ground. My newer GM vehicles will be dead as they both rely on microprocessors for engine management. I plan on riding out on horseback...below are some links that provide insight to EMP effects:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32544.pdf

http://140.194.76.129/publications/a...m5-690/c-5.pdf

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/bugs_ch12.pdf

http://www.hubersuhner.com/products/...protectors.htm

[theGinsue]

Oh, and subterranian crab people. I don't think there's any of those either.

Man, have they sold you a bill of goods!

[theGinsue]

im preparing for when my wife finds out about all my girl friends, tiger's wife has nothing on my wife haha. now that will be a shtf moment

My wife used to have an issue with all of my girlfriends, but she finally chilled out and decided that, since they go away once I wake up, no harm, no foul!

[RobertB]

It's not the subterranean crab people that get you; it's those damn Graboids.

[xr2]

30 days worth of food and water so you don't have to leave the house is good. So where you gonna poop? My guess is that if society collapses and the mob is rampaging through the streets, public sanitation may suffer from technical difficulties.

[cowboykjohnson]

All of them.... plus the aliens, zombies, crab people, and the arrival of the devil.

Food, water, guns.... enough for a few years eventually.

[Ak47Ar15Glock26]

30 days worth of food and water so you don't have to leave the house is good. So where you gonna poop? My guess is that if society collapses and the mob is rampaging through the streets, public sanitation may suffer from technical difficulties.

thats why you store water, just because the water is off doesnt mean the drain wont haul poop away from your house. fill that tank with rain water, and dont flush just because you pissed in it. keep an extra phone book around too

[KFinn]

in the event of a govnt collapse, you could use old paper statements/bills, govnt tax docs.... Then you could enjoy the irony while on the shitter.

[wilsonpenfam]

Just wondering what the general opinion is about which event you think is most likely.

Short term natural disaster, like snowstorm that cuts power for weeks
Nukes/terrorist attacks
economic meltdown/dollar collapse
global cooking, er, I mean warming, er, I mean climate change.
Govt. clampdown on civilians
meteor strike
aliens from outer space attack
Plague that wipes out large number of people

I'm going to go with economic problems, maybe a collapse of the dollar down the road.

since I live so close to Norad, Ft. Carson, Peterson AFB, Shreiver AFB, and the airforce academy I am preparing for terrorist attacks and takover of my community. the second would be an economic meltdown in which situation looters and criminals will run rampant trying to survive.