You are correct, 1930s proved to be years where Grandma's china cabinet she hauled back from Poland on large ship was burned for heat. I remember Grandfather telling me all the bs of her getting that cabinet from horse and buggy in Poland to ship and staying in lowest deck to New York Ellis Island and long trip from there to Chicago, he said he cursed whole trip like it was 1912, LOL then few years later he joined Army to fight in mother of all wars in Europe, trenches for miles, poison gases, hand to hand combat, I learned great deal from my Grandfather as he lived in history that otherwise could only read about, he was born in 1889 and always ate greasy foods, smoked cigars and drank a shot of whiskey each night before bed, died in 1985, very hard working brick mason till he was 80 years old. Always told me you will always hurt somewhere in your body and God's way of telling you, you are living right, it going to hurt regardless, might as well make some money. I miss playing violin with him, and many other conversations. Live in Central America where they don't have much or any Crude Oil or energy, no diamond mines or gold, plenty of those darn monkeys, first couple hours they are cute, then they are become like royal pain in arse. I believe like Germany after World War one was using their currency for toilet paper as they had so much inflation, take a wheel barrow full of their money for loaf of bread.
And yet you were still far better off financially in Germany in 1925 than if you had been in El Salvador, for example.
I am not Mormon but the best resource I have ever seen is the LDS Book of Preparedness. They collate articles and resources on survival techniques and independent living. It's about 500 pages long and it's free. But IMO, one of the most overlooked assets in a collapsed economy, resulting in hyperinflation will be toilet paper, medicine, soap, canned goods.......day to day necessities. https://www.ldsavow.com/PrepManualGeneral.html
Thanks, guys, for your posts. I really think about it. As the last events convince few years that the cataclysm in the financial system is not illusory. We must be ready for anything.
It's going to be terrible. Maybe the most valuable commodity will be food and seeds, then after that guns and weapons. finding farmland and protecting turf. Ever seen the 1975 series "Survivors"? Probably the chances are not counting on surviving at all. Then just make peace with your respective religions.
I have read a few things about EMP bombs. It will only take 5,6 of them to cover the entire U.S. and Canada. They will take out the electrical grid and many other electrical items like water distribution plants, cars, HVAC systems, planes in the air, radar, nuclear plants, ....the list goes on. There is a lot of talk about EMP's but they always fail to add that an hour or two hours after the attack is when the nukes will most likely fall. Another 'side effect' of EMP's rarely mentioned is that it for several hours after an attack, it accentuates any excessive personality traits in someone. So, if someone has a short temper, prone to violence, alcohol or depressive moods, etc...they will have those negative traits for several hours. Fortunately, (speaking figuratively) we will probably get hit at night when everyone is asleep. Some have suggested that as many as 90 percent of the people will die ( in some communities) within a year after an EMP assault. No electricity, no fuel, food, medical assistance, police or fire protection. They have painted a pretty bad picture.
I know an ultra wealthy guy who does just that but he buys whiskey. He is a religious guy and does not even drink.
We actually had a recent miss with an EMP from the Sun. It would have wiped out alot. My hope is that it was the 100 year, "carrington' one and we won't have another. It went the opposite direction as the earth. 2002-2003 if I recall. I have read that the state of Texas has been taking steps to protect against this. From what I read the big problem is that all the large transformers are manufactured overseas and there is no stock of them. They all blow at once and your screwed.
First of all, large transformers are not all manufactured "overseas" (http://www.spxtransformersolutions.com/transformers_home.html) Even if they were, "overseas" is someplace like Germany and it may be faster to get a transformer from there to NY then from WA to NY, for example, so the fact its not made is the U.S. isn't really relevant. It actually makes much more sense to approach this potential problem with a worldwide perspective than a parochial U.S. based one simply because of the fact that the earth blocks EM pulses so by definition no more than half the earth will ever be impacted by an EMP event. Therefore if major parts of the U.S. are impacted than most of Europe will not be, and none of Asia would be, and vice versa. The half of the world that isn't impacted can provide spares to the half that is. FERC has an interesting article for a more fact-based look at potential EMP impact to the electric grid at http://www.ferc.gov/industries/elec...lity/cybersecurity/ferc_executive_summary.pdf