![]() He asked the question in his book, what if a cyber attack takes out the US power grid in part, or the entire electric system is shut down? What is a nation like the US, the richest country on earth, with the highest standard of living going to do, since it is so unprepared for the total loss of the power grid? ![]() Koppel has a new book called Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving The Aftermath Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath : He spent his early days living in England as it was being bombed by Hitler’s air force, bombings that cut off normal supplies of electricity, gas and water sometimes for months on end. You may have a day or two if you know what to do when the lights go out, to capture some of the last few gallons still in the water lines.ĭo you remember Ted Koppel from his forty two years with ABC News and his twenty five years as the anchor of the Nightline late evening TV show? Koppel was the son of German-Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis one step ahead of the gas chambers. It takes electricity to pump, to make safe to drink and to distribute water. The number one mistake in planning to prepare for the dollar or the power to collapse, is not storing any water. If you have not already acquired the guns and ammo that you will have to have to even attempt to survive, you will quickly discover that that was your number two worst mistake in your life ( and it may be a short one). By day two of no power you will be happy to pay $200 plus for the same five gallons of gas. If someone tells you that they have to have a nice crisp $100 bill for a five gallon can of gas, give them the hundred dollars. If you have a stack of US paper money stashed in your mattress do you have the foresight to figure out when the power first goes off that there is a good chance it may not be coming back on anytime soon? Are you predisposed to spend your cash real fast and maybe get ahead of the long term disaster effects? Take every bit of your soon to be worthless paper money and buy as much as you can in hard assets. If you think because your last bank statement says you have one million dollars in the bank, remember it is only one million blips on a computer screen. If your perceived personal dollars are not in paper money, non-silver coins, real silver, gold coins, ammo or some other first world country’s currency, when the electricity goes down you have no dollars. I do not care how much money you think you have. In case you think this might be an either-or situation, if the power goes, so goes your dollar, and if the dollar goes, very quickly the unpaid employees of the power system stop coming to work, then no electricity. ![]() However, what really keeps me up at night or more likely messes with my sleeping mind and wakes me up way too early, is the US dollar crashing or the US power grid crashing.
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