Over the weekend, I took time to watch an hour-long presentation at GridDownPowerUp.com. It’s narrated by Dennis Quaid, and details all the ways our aging power grid is vulnerable to natural disasters, terrorism, cyberattack, EMP, and more. Although I probably knew most of the information presented, I was glad to watch the entire documentary because it reinforced just how interconnected and fragile the U.S. grid truly is.
What’s truly frightening is that it wouldn’t take much to cripple the entire system. Take out as few as nine (out of tens of thousands) high voltage transformers and it could send us back to the dark ages in seconds. What’s worse? We don’t make these massive transformers in this country anymore, probably to save a few bucks, and they take a year or longer to produce just one. What’s even worse that that, you ask? Seems we’re getting them from China now, at least some transformers, anyway, so who wants to guess whether China has embedded some sort of back door access to sabotage our grid if, say, we went to war? I’d put odds on it.
You can watch the entire presentation to get a better idea of our many vulnerabilities, but suffice it to say that if/when the power grid is attacked, everything you and I rely upon will come to a standstill for months or years. I’m not exaggerating either! We’ll have no food, water, lighting, sewers, hospitals, heat, air conditioning, medicines, gasoline… the list goes on.
THIS IS WHY it’s so crucial to stockpile what you can now, so you’re not screwed if/when SHTF. Personally, I see inflation in our future, so I’m preparing for the value of the U.S. Dollar to vanish. Others see much worse pandemics in our future. Maybe it’s WW3. Who really knows. All I can say is that it’s not going to be a pretty future with the way things are heading.
Whatever concerns you, prepare for our collapse while you still can. I wrote a book on the topic if you’d like to discover how, at least from my point of view, but the moral of the story is that you can’t prepare for what’s coming after the fact. Not even if you have plenty of money, as a few of my friends likely anticipate. The stock market won’t save you. Plenty of money in the back won’t either. ONLY PRIOR PREPARATION WILL.
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