Do you have a safety plan? Do you keep food/water ready? NK launching that missile over Japan had me scared for what’s to come.
What happens when we can no longer get our meds?
The DPRK is reacting to the ulchi freedom guardian 17 drills conducted by the ROK & US. I’m quite sure that North America is safe from the DPRK missile launches. Can’t say the same for Japan and the ROK though.
I’m all for finding these manufacturing plants and bribing the security guard to let me haul off a bucket of injectable Abilify. I’d like to say I’m kidding, but I’ve considered this before when I started worrying about medical care being cancelled nationwide
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Raid the pharmacy at the hospital before anyone else does?
That or one of the dozen or so around town.
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I have a prn order for extra haldol that i only fill every couple months. I think I’ll start filling it regularly and stocking up. Just in case.
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We have ourselves a preppers thread!!!
Pix is gonna love this 
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We have missile defense systems that can shoot down incoming nuclear missiles, but Russian and China don’t like them because they can also shoot down aircraft well within the borders of their countries. Also, these missiles can be circumvented. Russia is building a super missile that can defeat our defensive missile system.
They have greatly reduced the number of atomic warheads in the stockpiles of both the U.S. and Russia, and I think they intend to reduce them more, which is a very positive development.
Greatly reduced or not, the US alone has 6.8 thousand and almost 2 thousand of those are ready to be launched within minutes. That’s a fuckton of nuclear weapons. Just in the US. Plus Russia has like 7K and China has a few hundred.
Pretty sure that’s enough to end the world.
I’m more worried about an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) taking out the power grid for years. Society would crumble. The grid could be hardened, but they’re not doing it.
An EMP could result from a mid air nuclear blast or a natural phenomenon of the sun.
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Stand outside during the nuking. I’m not joking. I’m taking the first chance I get to leave.
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From what I remember reading 10,000 nuclear weapons are enough to wipe off life in every landmass in the world.
I think if all electrical devices went, I’d play my guitar a lot more often.
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It’s enough to end the world 100 times over. There will be no survivors.
Yeah… but there would be no water coming from the pipes, no sanitation/sewage treatment, no food in the supermarket after a few days, no electronic payments, no gas coming out of the gas pumps, and most newer cars with computers in them would not run.
It’d be a disaster, most of the population would die of violence, starvation and disease.
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Back to the old dusty trail…
There was a huge power outrage in San Diego a few years ago. It lasted about 8 hours. It was wild to drive at traffic lights because drivers were not following the four way stops… people crashed. The water still worked but gas stations didn’t, no internet, landlines worked but cordless phones would die. Without a doubt it would be tough but I think a nuclear bomb is far more destructive.
North korea is a joke… dont let them hype you up about it… we have a missle defense grid… we are one of the more scary countries… i feel bad for nk people… they have it terrible…
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Yes but will the president do anything about it if a missle launches here? A MISSLE flying over an allied country is like someone going up to you and pulling the trigger at you with an empty gun. You don’t tolerate that. And if anything less than a war against NK would be my bane.
IDK but I want a pip boy. I want dog meat and Codsworth on my side too…wait I’m currently of no use to society so I probably won’t make it to a Vault to survive the war.
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Water would work for a little while, but without power, and without computers, the water treatment facilities would not work. The traffic lights wouldn’t really matter since most cars wouldn’t run. Without gas, and without trucks, there’s no food for the cities. I’m not sure if landlines would work, possibly those would be fried too (the last big EMP melted telegraph lines) but in any case, if the connections were made by computers they probably wouldn’t work.
I think ham radios might continue to work. Military tech is “hardened” as well as anything in a Faraday cage.
But with most computers down and power out long term - we’re talking years - there would be no way to get food or water to the majority of people. This wouldn’t be localized, it could affect entire continents.
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