A huge threat we face from potential enemies from around the world is the use of an electromagnetic pulse, a weapon that can be absolutely devastating. Sure, it might not kill you right away, but the fact it will obliterate all electronic items within its radius, including vehicles, will lead to a complete shutdown of infrastructure resulting in societal collapse on at minimum a local scale. That means rioting, looting, and all sorts of crazy stuff.
Once the power grid goes down, people get sort of nutty.
Fortunately, there’s a way to prevent an EMP from being able to wipe out every single electronic item you have. It’s called a Faraday cage. You can create a little survival kit with certain things you’ve set aside and place them in it in order to prevent them from being rendered useless. This could be the difference between life and death for you and your loved ones, so if you want to be prepared for worst case scenarios, a Faraday cage is critical.
Let’s assume you have a Faraday cage already. What do you put in it? There’s a lot of different things you can do depending on your priorities for survival.
via Modern Survival:
Here’s my suggestion. Think of it in terms of categories such as security, food, water, and shelter (your home and property). Examine each category and think about items with embedded electronics that may be especially important or critical to you during post-EMP SHTF. Think of backups for critical survival infrastructure. Another side note… It can become expensive to store certain electronic items, backups, and spares in a Faraday cage because they’re not readily available, especially if stored in a sealed galvanized garbage can (for example). However, for those who cannot afford to do this for everything that you may want to put in a Faraday cage, at least consider storing those high-cost items there while you’re not using them. This is where professionally designed EMP bags come in handy for much easier access.
Maybe you have a night vision device. This is a perfect example of a high-cost item that should be kept in a Faraday cage. I keep a PVS-14 and Holosun Laser in a quality EMP bag (shown below). Those assets are too important to lose during an EMP event.
You might want to consider prioritizing ways to produce power/energy through the use of solar power. Doing this will ensure you can recharge devices that run on batteries like phones, radios, tools, for example.
The folks at Modern Survival provide a short list of items to help you brainstorm things you might want in your kit for the Faraday cage.
- 12-volt inverter to 120 volt
Flashlights / Headlamps
Emergency Radio
Portable SW/Ham radio receiver
Solar Battery Charger
AM/FM pocket radio
Cordless Power Tools and their Spare Batteries and Charger
Radiation Detector
Portable Power Bank
Spare laptop with important files, info, software
Router/Modem, home network backups
Old cell phone, tablet, iPad, etc.. with info and useful apps on it
USB flash drives with backups of your files, photos, documents
You can also use larger Faraday bags to help you store items to leave in your vehicle or any other safe places you want. At the end of the day, it’s critical to be ready for anything, including the future of warfare, which will no doubt focus on technology and not just human casualties. Collapsing society will result in chaos and when people turn on each other, foreign entities can just come in and deal damage.
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