5 min. left, start filling containers till water stops in meantime making notifications till phones, web go out.  Placing electronics in metal cases or just wrapping them in space blankets.

5 min. left, start filling containers till water stops in meantime making notifications till phones, web go out.  Placing electronics in metal cases or just wrapping them in space blankets.

i'm good, my house is completely lined with multiple layers of tinfoil

Congratulations, You just got married and had 2 kid, A boy 12 and a girl 17, Dont you feel lucky, Its 2pm on a Wednesday that means their at school and your wife's at work.
You call your wife but she dosent answer. Your kids cant take cell phones to school. your at work 5 miles from home your kids schools are on the way home but you wife works 5 miles in the other direction. (10 miles from home).

With the contents of your car what do you do ?

5 min left, do like Tom,  after filling up every container with water; lock and load, crack a beer, sit on the front porch, and enjoy the chaos...   


It'll be a few days until the real problems begin.....

5 mins after said event, strip naked and run around.  HPD to busy to stop me =P

Told my wife the same thing if plane is about to crash.  So when they find my body, they're gonna ask "where the hell did this guys clothes go?".

I stay put, because I'm at home filling water jugs, not at work. My wife is intelligent and capable, and she only works two miles from home. It's an easy walk that she's done often. My kids are the product of some sadist's imagination; it's clearly time I let them go. The contents of my car are fine just where they are.

I continue with my filling of water containers, protecting of electronics, and sipping of cold beer.

Won't a strong enough EMP disable vehicles as well?  Most won't run if the computer chips get fried.

http://jalopnik.com/5937778/how-to-prepare-your-car-to-handle-an-emp-and-why-you-shouldnt-bother

Beat me to it. Lots/most cars will be fine. A buddy texted me an article where they did EMP tests on cars and most were just fine. Maybe some stuff on the fritz, but would work.


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Best advice from the article:

I did learn that a microwave oven can make an excellent Faraday cage, so that's where you want to jam
your laptop and iPhone if you think an EMP attack is coming.

Just remember to remove them prior to your celebratory false-alarm burrito.

Take the discussion to this post https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=26914.0

I'm on one of the outer islands.
I'm set to survive, in fact it is the Oahu
politicians and people that support them
that are the biggest threat
to me. I have food, water, transportation
( if you like horses), medical et al, I really don't care
if Oahu Democrats get nuked, in fact
my life will become better if that
happened.
I don't need Democrats.
I don't need your police.
I don't need your unions.
I just want to be free, from the likes
of Hawaiian Democrats.
Flame on guys!

Text wife to buy food and water on the way home.  Pick up the kids and make them help me carry all the liquor. Everyone will thank me later when we have some nonperishables to trade.

London808 this is a great idea!
Let's play...

On 2pm on Wednesday I am sitting at my office job in an air conditioned 7 story building in downtown.  My life is about to change and civilization is about t be tested...

I get the NASA message, if I truly believe it was not a hoax and that electronic devices would be knocked out in catastrophic proportions, I would text my immediate family. 

I finish work at 4:30pm, I would go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of stuff including fuel containers, water holders, ice chests, saws, tarps, BATTERIES, a generator, firewood, candles, flashlights other immediately useful items. 

Stop by Chevron and Safeway to fill up gas and stock up on canned food, beans, rice, and ICE.   
 
I get home unload everything. 

Tomorrow morning I'll call in sick and be going to the bank to withdraw my money whilst leaving the minimum balance so as to not raise any red flags.

I would also buy anything else I would need, Costco to stock canned food and liquor, and Diamond Head Ice to get cheap 20 pound bags for like $4.

I have 7 chickens so I can feed them scraps for fresh eggs and breed them for more chickens.

I get to building a basic rocket stove with cinder blocks. 

The rest of the night I would be enforcing my home, constructing wooden barriers to block entrance to my home, using my tools as much as possible to build things while we still have electricity. 

At some point I would tend to my weapons and load magazines as needed, there aren't that many and realistically I don't think I would need my guns immediately. 

It's 12pm the next day, I haven't slept all night but I'm finished building my last barrier.  I take a shower and probably pass out for an hour before the flare hits.....

It's 2pm, the flare hits.....

As this game gets more challenging, another viable option is; when in danger when in doubt, run in circles scream and shout.

2pm - gtfo out of work
2:05 tell family and friends
2:15pm hit home depot and lows and pick up a bunch of survival stuff start maxing them credit cards
3pm hit up gun shops and grab ammo
4pm drive westward head to the nearest bank
4:15 withdrawl as much cash as I can
4:30 hit up gold shops and buy gold
5pm get home and offload
5:30pm hit up all the food stores and max out on cans and long storage foods
6pm off load at house and tell family to start filling anything that can hold water with water
7pm start making rounds of stores buying more stuff for survival use that credit card
8pm stock up on gas buy extra gas cans and fill em up
9pm buy a gene and other useful tools with no electricity
10pm get stuff to build faraday cages
11pm medical supplies and drop stuff at home base
12pm hit bestbuy and stock up on batteries and other useful electronics
1am sleep
8am get up access the situation  to see if panic has started
9am if no panic and shopping is safe keep buying more shit by the car-full
12am get home and get ready to barricade and everything
1pm have all guns and mags loaded and ready
2pm make sure everything is protected with faraday cages and brace for impact

Most the people responding to this challenge have already lost.
I won't boast about my preparations other than to say the only thing I will
miss if the world shuts down is the INTERNET and beer, and I'll have beer
in a month or two( if can find that book)
You need to prepare way ahead of an event.
Events are going to happen.   Just like death
and taxes.

Beat me to it. Lots/most cars will be fine. A buddy texted me an article where they did EMP tests on cars and most were just fine. Maybe some stuff on the fritz, but would work.


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I will see if I can find the video but there was one I saw where an EMP did shut down a vehicle. The more rugged electronics like a power window worked but the more complicated ones like the computerized systems didn't work after.

I will see if I can find the video but there was one I saw where an EMP did shut down a vehicle. The more rugged electronics like a power window worked but the more complicated ones like the computerized systems didn't work after.

I don't particularly like your ideas.
but as my IP is mostly untraceable
I'll say this.
I used to certify my designs as being EMP
proof to the FAA.  Don't get on an airplane if you
don't believe me.
If something is rated CE it is pretty safe.
make sure all your stuff has surge suppression
and don't  ever
fall for the idea that cops are your friend.
They will just kill your dogs, shoot you, and get
paid vacation till the courts absolve them of
any crimes.
Aloha.

Due to the fact that we have some members that can't have a conversation about something without going to personal attacks and general shit talking ( basically ruining any hope of a meaningful thread) I have decided not to continue this or thread/ the game

Due to the fact that we have some members that can't have a conversation about something without going to personal attacks and general shit talking ( basically ruining any hope of a meaningful thread) I have decided not to continue this or thread/ the game

   London808 sorry you feel this way, I was really looking forward to the next scenario, screw the big heads and shit talkers, I want to play, this is a great idea