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So the power grid goes down for a long time
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How do you get the water if there is no electricity.. Your generator is good till you run out of fuel.. the Amish one looks like dryer vent pop riveted together. Hand pumps are another option. I have a 150' deep well.
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I have a natural gas well on my land, gas is free, as long as the electronics in the genset are OK it will run. If not that is OK too, the well is shallow with a pulley hook already there to get water as needed by bucket.
Wow- all the natural gas you need.......and get it with a bucket!
[:D]
headwaters of small river close enough to carry/fill buckets
My generator runs on Natural Gas which is free. I own the mineral rights on the land and obtained free gas for as long as I or a family member owns the rights instead of royalties. The Royalties off of the gas would have been about the same + or - a little as what the gas bill would be.
I have a natural gas well on my land, gas is free, as long as the electronics in the genset are OK it will run. If not that is OK too, the well is shallow with a pulley hook already there to get water as needed by bucket.
Why not get a generator that runs on natural gas? Small enough for just the pumps needs or big enough for the whole operation.
lehmans.com covers about any non-electric thing you want, but they are pricy. Unless your well is about 30 ft or less you would need a deep well pump, or a well bucket.
Life is tough and even tougher when you're unprepared (or just pain stupid).
quote:Originally posted by bpost
I have a natural gas well on my land, gas is free, as long as the electronics in the genset are OK it will run. If not that is OK too, the well is shallow with a pulley hook already there to get water as needed by bucket.
Why not get a generator that runs on natural gas? Small enough for just the pumps needs or big enough for the whole operation.
In the event of an EMP generators produced in the last 30 years would be useless. I am currently reading a book by William Forstchen, titled "One Second After", it is about the events that take place after an EMP event, based in the area of Black Mountain, close to Ashville, NC. Very interesting read about how it can effect all of us.
Nationally and not regionally? I would think chaos would set in pretty fast.
When this area had Hugo hit, a lot of people had cook outs so they could use up the freezer food. Kinda nice got to meet a few neighbors.
There was no cash available from tellers, no generators to pump fuel from the tanks of most service stations, Hell ICE was selling for a premium and Mayor Joe Riley threatened to arrest anyone caught gouging. Damn few are anymore prepared.
FEMA couldn't rescue the entire country and things would get really ugly.
A week most people will handle OK and talk about for years to come. The city dwellers may loot.
A month and most people are in dire straights or very close to it.
Any more than a month and we have a whole new America.
The best move would be to get as far into the wilderness as one can with as much as one can haul in before martial law and roI want fees to go ups are set up. Anywhere else you are a sitting duck.
Though city water went through years ago, we still have the well. Stinky sulphur water but safe to drink. We also still have the antique hand pump from when the place was being built.
Place has an oil furnace. While useless if there's no power, the diesel oil in it will burn just fine in Kerosene lamps.
Wood burning fireplace might mean that we have to put the beds in the living room around it for the winter, but we could manage.
If you aren't picky, there's enough fish in the harbor to live off of... though sheephead and carp aren't good eating, we won't starve.
We'd make it but it wouldn't be fun.
This is a realistic look at what life would be like, and it would be grim. To boil it down, after a day or two nobody has any more water, and after 3 or 4 days nobody has any food. That is when the shooting starts.
It is grim.
ps You really don't want to be in, or near, a city. Your only hope for survival is to be out in the country.
Which is where I am! Got a propane tank, and a wood stove, big wood pile. Got 5 gallon buckets of hard red winter wheat, packed in nitrogen, stuff is good for 30 years.
Plus I have lots of other stuff that would come in handy.
clays I have that book by William Forstchen about life after an EMP. As you say it is set in Black Mountain NC. I live 40 minutes from there and have been to Black Mountain many times.
This is a realistic look at what life would be like, and it would be grim. To boil it down, after a day or two nobody has any more water, and after 3 or 4 days nobody has any food. That is when the shooting starts.
It is grim.
ps You really don't want to be in, or near, a city. Your only hope for survival is to be out in the country.
Which is where I am! Got a propane tank, and a wood stove, big wood pile. Got 5 gallon buckets of hard red winter wheat, packed in nitrogen, stuff is good for 30 years.
Plus I have lots of other stuff that would come in handy.
You just better hope you are near home when it happens!
This car would still run after an EMP, even if the battery was fried, you roll start it, and off you go.
However, as Forstchen points out in his book, the question is, "Where do you go?"
Following an EMP there would be about 6 cars that would run in Madison County. No police cars or ambulances would run. Martial law would be declared, so, if you drove into town, your car would be confiscated by the cops.
Or, Billy the Hillbilly would drop a pine tree across the road, and when you stop to chop it out of the way, he shoots you. Then, he gets the Mercedes and your gun.
In the post-EMP world, best to keep a low profile. You want to get cute and run your generator 6 hours a day, to keep your freezer cold?
Somebody is going to hear that generator, and they will pay you a visit. And they will have guns.
and if an EMP could do it, lightning would have done it to us long ago. As far as damage to electronics,
that's a different story, but I don't believe life would come to a standstill.
Maybe serf will come along and tell us how very dire this situation is.
10000 gallons of water.
Here in South Texas every third house has a pool.
If the whole country went down with in a month our population would be dropping fast . it would come down to making friends fast and having a large enough group to defend what you have . unless you living in a underground bunker with a years worth of supply's but at some point you still need to come out , like waiting out a submerged sub or the old surround the castle and wait for the food to run out story. so will the remaining population greet you with open arms [B)]or just take you out because thy can [xx(]and now they have a bunker [:D]
I do hope I do see such a time
how ever if it does I plan on taking as many of the SOB's as I can with me
quote:Originally posted by forgemonkey
,,,,,,,the electricity would be back on before 90% of ya run out of beer [:D][}:)][;)]