sportsdad60 wrote:Read the book "One Second After"
In the book it is terrorist High Altitude nukes set off from barges in the gulf of Mexico (3 of them) that terminates our electrical grid, but the foreword in the book discusses how this electrical grid melt down could be solar flares, or power grid infiltration by rogue states.
I warn you, you'll spend double on doomsday prep crap after reading this book recommendation "One Second After"
After reading this thread last night, I downloaded and started reading. It looks like all is going according to plan ...
In any SHTF scenario, the suburbs are where the problems are going to really be. People will flock out of the cities, starving, and run through neighborhoods in the burbs. Even with defensive weaponry, most are not sited in very defensible positions. Fire could be the ultimate weapon, no need to get too close to force an evacuation.
The rural areas will try to stop migration out of the suburbs, leaving them as the battleground.
By the way, a real EMP attack will not only get circuitry, but anything with coiled wire - and that includes older cars with conventional ignition. If directly exposed, they won't be running either.