What if an EMP detonated above the USA?

**JonDMiller** · 07-14-2009, 10:43 AM

This, while theoretical, is pretty scary: LINK

**cmoneyr** · 07-14-2009, 10:45 AM

With power out people’s fridges are DOA. With no working cars, people don’t go to work. In the country and in the suburbs, people take the food out of their refrigerators and freezers before it “goes bad” and have BBQs. It’s a fun time.

BBQ's? Sign me up!

**dosry5** · 07-14-2009, 10:48 AM

GREAT...another hawkeye thread

**dosry5** · 07-14-2009, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by dosry5

GREAT...another hawkeye thread

**CycloneYoda** · 07-14-2009, 10:49 AM

I would love to go back to the stone ages. I know how to hunt and grow food.

**The_Architect** · 07-14-2009, 10:50 AM

I'd be so screwed, I can't do anything on my own.

**Cyclonepride** · 07-14-2009, 10:51 AM

That's probably the most realistic option I've heard yet to meet our carbon emission goals

**JP4CY** · 07-14-2009, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by CycloneYoda

I would love to go back to the stone ages. I know how to hunt and grow food.

Jumping out of trees onto deer and cutting them with a knife?

**keepngoal** · 07-14-2009, 10:52 AM

this scenario and my response to it, is very similar to my response to a zombie outbreak.

-keep.

**jbhtexas** · 07-14-2009, 10:53 AM

I get real cranky if I can't check the Internet on my SmartPhone while waiting for my burger and fries at Jack-in-the-Box...

**CycloneYoda** · 07-14-2009, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by johnpkelly81

Jumping out of trees onto deer and cutting them with a knife?

Now yer talkin'!!!!!!!!!!

**CyPride** · 07-14-2009, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by johnpkelly81

Jumping out of trees onto deer and cutting them with a knife?

yeah, no doubt. no stores to buy stuff from. things would be so much different than they are now - and guys who say "they can hunt and grow stuff"......yeah, ok. I assume now that you buy seed and that you buy ammo, that you buy gas to get from point a to point b, that you buy the vast majority of your food, etc., etc.

like this poster says - hopefully you know how to slit a deer's throat.

**mustangcy** · 07-14-2009, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by CycloneYoda

I would love to go back to the stone ages. I know how to hunt and grow food.

But you know what? I'd let you plant your food and store all your meat then I'd come over and kill you and take it back to my family. I'm kind of kidding of course, but I've always thought that people who knew how to hunt and grow food in an event of major catasrophy would be in real danger.

**dmclone** · 07-14-2009, 10:57 AM

Note to self.....pick up a lot of canned food and guns on the way home from work tonight.

**CycloneYoda** · 07-14-2009, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by mustangcy

But you know what? I'd let you plant your food and store all your meat then I'd come over and kill you and take it back to my family. I'm kind of kidding of course, but I've always thought that people who knew how to hunt and grow food in an event of major catasrophy would be in real danger.

I would use my guns for this occasion. That, and I would be hiding in the woods, with trained murderous squirrels.