How to Survive the Collapse of Civilization!

What can it hurt? Be prepared. What if the unthinkable happened? Could your family survive, even for a few weeks, without electricity... hospitals... water pumped in from miles away... and food trucked in from out of state?

• Major Earth Quake.
• Major weather anomaly.
• Volcano Eruption.
• Natural Disaster of some kind.
• Major disruptions from solar activity are rare but have had serious impacts in the past. In 1989, a solar storm took down the power grid in Quebec, Canada, leaving about six million people without power for several hours.
• If terrorists succeed in attacking the U.S. power grid with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device, they could throw America into the dark ages in a split second.
• A new generation of drug-resistant "superbugs" could result in global epidemics that kill up to 100 million people.
• Marshall Law - Government Breakdown
• And as Hurricane Katrina proved, the Federal Government's ability to help during a national emergency is severely limited.

If there is one thing that gives America's security planners nightmares, it's the country's power grid.

That's because without electricity, virtually everything Americans depend upon for survival—food, water, heat, transportation and communications—would be threatened on a massive scale.

Yet experts warn that a single, split-second Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) from a nuclear weapon or EMP-producing device would effectively "fry" the nation's delicate power grid and virtually all non-shielded electronic equipment within hundreds of miles.

Without a large-scale invasion or even a nuclear war, parts of America could be thrown into the dark ages in an instant.

• No lights.
• No telephones.
• No Internet.
• No radio or television.

Even most vehicles would not start because of the electronic fuel-injection systems in most cars and trucks.

And That's Just For Starters!
The Entire Financial System Would Also Collapse.

• ATM machines would not work.
• Banks would be shuttered.
• Grocery stores would soon be looted.
• Police would be paralyzed and helpless.

"If even a crude nuclear weapon were detonated anywhere between 40 kilometers to 400 kilometers above the earth, in a split-second it would generate an electro-magnetic pulse [EMP] that would cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food and other infrastructure," said a report from the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001.

One U.S. colonel was even more blunt: An EMP burst would result, he says, in "mass starvation because food deliveries cease, urban deaths by dehydration as water systems fail, collapse of medical systems, breakdown of police functions, ineffectiveness of firefighters, loss of bank records, inability to move physically other than by foot, and a return of America to a "pre-industrial age state."

Intelligence services fear that China and Korea (which already possess EMP capability) or Iran (which is actively pursuing it) could pass an EMP device to Al-Qaeda terrorists.

A primitive, medium-ranged rocket launched from an offshore freighter might be able to take an EMP device high enough to do the trick.

Terrorism experts believe it's very likely that Islamic terrorists will successfully detonate a so-called "dirty" bomb—a conventional bomb that scatters radiological material—sometime in the near future.

Unlike an actual nuclear weapon, which requires precise engineering and access to enriched plutonium in order to split an atom, a dirty bomb can be made with ordinary explosives and radioactive materials.

Unfortunately, there are thousands of sources of non-weapons-grade radiological material, such as those used for medicine and in universities, available.

Most experts believe a dirty bomb's purpose is primarily psychological—that is, to terrify a population rather than to actually harm it. That's because tests have shown that radiation from a dirty bomb would be limited to a few city blocks, at most, and more people would be harmed from the explosives than by the radiation.

Nevertheless, if you live in an area in which a dirty bomb is detonated, you should take precautions such as swallowing potassium iodide pills and staying indoors.

If you're really worried about exposure to radiation, you can purchase an inexpensive credit-card-size radiation detector (called a dosimeter) that will let you know instantly the level of radiation in your immediate surroundings.

In good times, most Americans don't give a thought to the nation's food distribution system: They simply assume that when they go to the grocery store they'll find plenty of healthy, inexpensive and safe food.

But as the global depression worsens and the possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack still looms, that's a dangerous assumption to make.

The truth is, the U.S. food supply system is woefully unprepared for economic turmoil. The reliability and safety of U.S. food supplies are more threatened now than at any time in history.

Serious threats to the food supply come from the collapse of food inspection systems... the bankruptcy of U.S. agribusiness companies—and the breakdown of food distribution networks in the event of a massive terrorist attack or social unrest.

And it's no longer merely survivalists who are stockpiling food, either.

Last year, The Wall Street Journal's Brett Arends warned that "maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food." He added, "No, this is not a drill."

If there was one thing that 2005's Hurricane Katrina taught America, it's the need for self-reliance in emergency situations—especially when it comes to medical care.

That's because, virtually overnight, this one hurricane eliminated many of the emergency services the people of New Orleans counted on in a crisis. Suddenly, people were without ambulance services, hospitals, even a doctor or nurse.

Two days after the hurricane hit, the Federal government declared a Public Health Emergency in the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi. Dozens of hospitals shut down. Thousands of incapacitated patients had to be evacuated.

The conditions in many medical facilities were horrific: No electricity... bodies stacked in stairwells... sweltering heat.

The citizens of New Orleans learned a hard lesson: In a wide-scale emergency, medical personnel often flee to care for their own families.

One emergency doctor recalled that all that could be done was to "provide the barest amount of comfort care." He added, "We practiced medical triage at its most basic, black-tagging the sickest people and [moving] them [away] from the masses so that they could die in a separate area."

Smallpox is a highly contagious, extremely lethal disease that killed between 300 million and 500 million people in the 20th century—five times more than all the people killed in all the wars of the past 100 years. Its eradication through a global vaccination campaign was one of the triumphs of modern medicine.

The last known case occurred in 1978—and it is considered to be the only human disease to have been completely eradicated.

The only known samples of the living virus are allegedly found in two heavily guarded laboratories—one in the U.S. and one in Russia.

However, if Islamic terrorists somehow acquired smallpox virus—perhaps through contacts in the Russian mafia—they could develop a biological weapon that would deliver a devastating blow.

One reason: While most Americans born before 1970 have been vaccinated against smallpox, the vaccine only lasts for five years! With the exception of some 650,000 U.S. soldiers, most young Americans have not been vaccinated at all and remain totally vulnerable to exposure...

"An attack using smallpox is a very real possibility, and the problem is that only a handful of countries in the world have enough adequate supplies for their own people," said Randall Larsen, senior adviser to the Center of BioSecurity in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

The bottom line is "Be Prepared" read what you can, find what you can, save what you can.

The link below is FEMA's recommended information for a disaster.