Prepping for SHTF scenarios

[AFTT47]

There is actually one pseudo-apocalyptic thing for a sane person to prep for: A repeat of The Carrington Event of 1859. The website may overstate how bad it would be but it would definitely be a SHTF event.

Dude, that's motherfucking InfoWars - the "Jews are the Illuminati, the Queen of England is a lizard alien" central.

Less trustworthy than the raving lunatic on public transit.

I didn't consider the source. As I said, the website probably overstated the impact but it would still be major. Google "Carrington Event" and you will find plenty of information from respectable sources. If we got a solar flare of that magnitude today, it would be devastating. The power grid would be down for months and electronics destruction would be widespread. It wouldn't be the end of the world but it would be very bad. Think of a natural disaster like a category 4 or 5 hurricane but over an entire hemisphere.

We're not talking about something like a super volcano which only erupts once every 40,000 years or a killer asteroid impact which are tens of millions of years apart. The Carrington Event was just 157 years ago! The possibility of a similar flare in our lifetime is very realistic - and we are not prepared for it. We could be but we're not.