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brin_bellway) wrote2020-05-31 11:21 am
brin_bellway) wrote2020-05-31 11:21 am
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Always too soon, but especially now
[cw: apocalypse]
Me: *reading about EMPs on The Prepared, in hopes of some actionable advice*
The Prepared: *not much of anything in the way of actionable advice, although to the best of our admittedly-limited knowledge household devices likely _do_ keep working after a solar EMP (likely _not_ a nuclear EMP, but OTOH if you're getting nuked you presumably have even bigger problems), it's just (""just"") the power production/delivery system that fails, which _implies_ that standard reduction-of-grid-reliance techniques would work? maybe? god I wish I could afford more of those than just a solar phone charger, but I have to prioritise: no sense in putting solar panels on a failing roof*
The Prepared: also, it'll take a while to even be confident that it *was* an EMP and not some smaller-scale power outage; the first sign that it *might* be an EMP is hearing a loud boom and/or seeing a flash right before the power goes out
---
Me, one fucking day later, a little while after going to bed: *lightly asleep*
Outside: *boom* *flash of orange light* *power goes out*
Me: holy SHIT
---
[over the next few minutes, the power flickers back on two or three times, each immediately followed by another boom and flash and the power failing again; this is...a good sign? maybe?]
---
[at the impromptu, flashlight-lit family meeting]
Brother, mostly joking: We should tell scary stories in the dark!
Mom: Oh God, no. I was just thinking I've been watching too much Walking Dead before bedtime.
Me, internally: You think *you've* been reading too many scary stories??
---
Me, reluctantly on my way back to bed because whatever happens next I should at least *try* to face it better rested, right?: *looks out window*
Outside: *streetlights in the distance are lit: the next sub-network over is still functioning*
Me: Oh thank *god*, it's *not* global, it's not even *regional*.
Me: *sleeps significantly more soundly with this knowledge*
---
[shortly after dawn]
Me: *rolls over*
Humidifier: *whirrr*
Me: Good. *goes back to sleep*
---
Me: *goes downstairs after brushing teeth etc*
Time discrepancy on oven clock (the cumulative length of the outage): [two hours, fifty-five minutes]
Me: *reading about EMPs on The Prepared, in hopes of some actionable advice*
The Prepared: *not much of anything in the way of actionable advice, although to the best of our admittedly-limited knowledge household devices likely _do_ keep working after a solar EMP (likely _not_ a nuclear EMP, but OTOH if you're getting nuked you presumably have even bigger problems), it's just (""just"") the power production/delivery system that fails, which _implies_ that standard reduction-of-grid-reliance techniques would work? maybe? god I wish I could afford more of those than just a solar phone charger, but I have to prioritise: no sense in putting solar panels on a failing roof*
The Prepared: also, it'll take a while to even be confident that it *was* an EMP and not some smaller-scale power outage; the first sign that it *might* be an EMP is hearing a loud boom and/or seeing a flash right before the power goes out
---
Me, one fucking day later, a little while after going to bed: *lightly asleep*
Outside: *boom* *flash of orange light* *power goes out*
Me: holy SHIT
---
[over the next few minutes, the power flickers back on two or three times, each immediately followed by another boom and flash and the power failing again; this is...a good sign? maybe?]
---
[at the impromptu, flashlight-lit family meeting]
Brother, mostly joking: We should tell scary stories in the dark!
Mom: Oh God, no. I was just thinking I've been watching too much Walking Dead before bedtime.
Me, internally: You think *you've* been reading too many scary stories??
---
Me, reluctantly on my way back to bed because whatever happens next I should at least *try* to face it better rested, right?: *looks out window*
Outside: *streetlights in the distance are lit: the next sub-network over is still functioning*
Me: Oh thank *god*, it's *not* global, it's not even *regional*.
Me: *sleeps significantly more soundly with this knowledge*
---
[shortly after dawn]
Me: *rolls over*
Humidifier: *whirrr*
Me: Good. *goes back to sleep*
---
Me: *goes downstairs after brushing teeth etc*
Time discrepancy on oven clock (the cumulative length of the outage): [two hours, fifty-five minutes]