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[poltiregist]

This is for those that prepare . Winter is approaching , the presidential election is approaching , wars are escalating , so for those that face such things , know there is a reasonable possibility the electrical grid will be targeted and destroyed for the approaching cold months and possibly the " approaching years " will be gridles . So what have you done to prevent your family and self from freezing over the coming months ?

 

[SoulSeeker]

There's so much can happen, take out the electricity, poison the water supply, dirty bombs, nuking Nellis AFB and such. I'd rather just go as I'm ready for that and be one of the lucky one's.

 

[lonewolf]

just had solar panels fitted.

 

[poltiregist]

Much of todays homes are total electric . Sure for a few days many could cook over their charcoal grill . If they have charcoal . Their refrigerators would stop running , their deep freezes stop running , lights stop running , their television stop running , their cell phones for many would not be recharged , their hot water heater stop running , fuel pumps at the gas station stop running , grocery as well as all other stores shut down due to they all depend on electric for freezers and cash registers , for many water stop running and as the thread title suggests many would freeze to death .The electric grid would be an easy and very vulnerable target that could be attacked in multiple ways . According to a government study , if the electric grid was lost 90% of the United States population would die within a 12 month period .

 

[Snowman]

Thanks for answering the OP, saved me lots of typing, most convenient, starting a thread and doing the werk for everybody...!!! and it was only 4 posts...

 

[Alaskajohn]

An abundant supply of firewood and a good wood stove is a tried and true solution to freezing to death.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We heat with wood, completely on solar, two years worth of propane for water heater cooking, well pump and clothes dryer. Two years of diesel for the tractor and backup generator and two years of premium non ethanol gas for the small equipment; snow blowers, log splitter, ATV's, chainsaw etc.

 

[Sourdough]

High quality sleeping bags.

 

[poltiregist]

I have my firewood up for this year . As soon as a good freeze kills the ticks back I plan to be starting on firewood for the following winter . Right now as the situation stands I have a chainsaw and fuel for it . After S.H.T,F. that may not be available . I don't look forward to cutting firewood with a two man crosscut saw . I have already done that in years past and certainly hope things don't get to where that is necessary again . Ready to go is my wood heater as well as my wood cookstove . -- Imagine the plight of city folks if the electric grid is destroyed . They don't even have a wood heater or any wood to put in such a thing except I suppose they could burn up their wood furniture , which would only hold the cold back for just a few more hours . --- We are coming upon the ultimate time for enemies to destroy electrical grids . --- As a couple of members pointed out on the world war three thread . Enemies would like to have the land without it being ruined for their own use . So actually all they have to do is destroy the electrical grids , sit back and wait 2 or 3 years and it would be basically a vacant landscape as only a few that seriously prepared will be left populating the landscape . -- Even that crazy North Korean leader with his primitive nukes , likely has the ability to accomplish an E.M.P. or send a few of his crazy loyalist to physically attack key electrical installations . Perhaps even some smart computer geek could make the electrical instillations simply melt down with a cyber attack . It has already been proven in recent days geeks can make lithium batteries explode so what else are they capable of . Anyways even if someone is prepared to give up and die they should consider their kids and grandkids , if they have any and help provide them with an avenue to survive .

 

[Tirediron]

Good thread, might get people thinking, maybe just a tiny bit

 

[Amish Heart]

We have a wood burning stove and wood. Also a whole house generator and three portable generators, and solar. And portable propane and Mr Buddy heaters. But I'm the designated stove/firewood person, and I like to keep it going when it's cold.
Looking forward to that first burn of the season.

 

[dademoss]

People have been surviving for CENTURIES in less than paradise.

Pretty sure everybody here has some degree of preps, but what will be important is the ability to IMPROVSE, ADAPT, and OVERCOME.

Sure, there is firewood for THIS winter, what happens NEXT winter.

 

[Morgan101]

We have plans for power outages that would assure our safety. Much would depend on the length of the outage, and what utilities might be down. We have both gas and electric, so would both be down? We heat with gas, but everything else is electric. We have several ways to cook that would not require electricity. We have plans to consolidate where we would live in our house to conserve heat and stay warm. Fortunatelly, we are retired. so we would not have to go anywhere. We have ample food and water to hunker down and wait it out. Should a power outage last for multiple years it would be a whole new story.

 

[Mountain trapper]

If the US electric grid went down, we wouldn't know about it for awhile. We get all the electric we need from solar.

 

[Caribou]

We have a wood/coal stove with a flat top to cook on. There is a heat powered fan to circulate the heat to the far end of the house and plenty of blankets. I have a small supply of wood but a couple years worth of coal. The termites don’t bother my coal.

 

[poltiregist]

Perhaps some do not know , so for those I will explain . On some of the major power transfer stations and no doubt in power generating plants are these huge transformers . These transformers if it should be destroyed , they " can not " go to the warehouse and get a replacement transformer . These transformers are special and have to be built for that particular spot . For now if one should go out they simply redirect the electricity to keep the power grid operational . However if multiple of these special transformers are destroyed , then the power grid collapses . -- It takes months to build a transformer of this caliber . To make matters even worse , most if not all are built in China . So that leaves China with the option as to supply replacement transformers or simply wait a few years and then send in their huge ground forces to conduct a wipe up operation of any that might try to resist . Which do you think they would choose - take some inflated printed paper money for exchange of providing transformers or take and own the entire country ?