Is it still a 'tin foil hat fantasy' if the ex-CIA Director warns about EMP risk?

[Jim D]

Do you guys think the circuitry in LED flashlights would get fried with exposure to an EMP?

Yes.

As for the above posed question, I'd convert all of the cash in my pocket to a physical resource (food, water, cigarettes, etc) depending on my needs, distance from home, how much cash was on me, etc.

Borrow a shopping cart to carry your shit in, keep you mouth shut, and start heading for your own personal high ground.

[Straight Shooter]

Yeah, I know. Thats why I said "your doing whatever it is that you do"; work, school, at home, etc. Endless variables. I ask myself what I would do in any of them that I can think that I might find myself. So long as your not on a trans-ocean flight I think you got a good chance at circling the wagons and going to DEFCON 1 before the sheeple figure out what's going on. I always told my wife if you find yourself in a situation where the powers out, cell is dead, and your wrist watch hast stopped, quietly get home as fast as you can without talking to anyone and play dumb as to what is going on. Once home it's castle hardening and kit donning time.

RIGHT ON. For a long time now, this {EMP}, has been a great concern of mine. In my "operational area", I have long since had a plan to get home from work, store, anywhere I am in a 5-8 mile radius of home. Should this occur while at work, Im doing exactly what Moose Knuckle told his wife...Im simply walking out, going to the car to get "some things", then going home. The sheep I work with will still be inside the break room taking the down time to argue about football & basketball, and pissed caused they cant watch ESPN or get on FaceBook.
Im only 5 miles away, so Ill be home and rested while most are still scratchin their heads and asses.

[vandal5]

I just hope it happens on a day I'm working from home. Not when I'm at a customer's site 150 miles away.

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[Moose-Knuckle]

Do you guys think the circuitry in LED flashlights would get fried with exposure to an EMP?

Yeah all of our Surefire lights, EOTech/Aimpoint RDS, IR lasers, etc. will be fried unless you have them tucked away in a Faraday cage. One day I hope to have the money to purchase redundant lights/RDS's to store in a Faraday cage/bags "Just In Case".

[Outlander Systems]

Yeah all of our Surefire lights, EOTech/Aimpoint RDS, IR lasers, etc. will be fried unless you have them tucked away in a Faraday cage. One day I hope to have the money to purchase redundant lights/RDS's to store in a Faraday cage/bags "Just In Case".

Depending on the wavelength of the pulse, it may bypass them completely....or you may wish you had a Trijicon.

[Outlander Systems]

Keep a pair of boots, a tarp/woobie, and a means to treat water in the car at all times, and you'll be way ahead of the curve.

I'd hate to have to ruck wearing shower shoes...

[Koshinn]

Yes.

As for the above posed question, I'd convert all of the cash in my pocket to a physical resource (food, water, cigarettes, etc) depending on my needs, distance from home, how much cash was on me, etc.

Borrow a shopping cart to carry your shit in, keep you mouth shut, and start heading for your own personal high ground.

How do those wheel locks on shopping carts work? The ones made to prevent homeless people from stealing them to do this exact thing?

[mig1nc]

Wouldn't a gun safe function as a form of faraday cage?

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[Outlander Systems]

Wouldn't a gun safe function as a form of faraday cage?

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Only if the gaps are sealed.

[Outlander Systems]

How do those wheel locks on shopping carts work? The ones made to prevent homeless people from stealing them to do this exact thing?

I wish they had those in my ghetto...nothing says "declining real estate values" like abandoned shopping carts at my subdivision entrance...