WHADDAYADO When TSHTF With No Warning…..at Night

catlady12 · Nov 20, 2014

Same thing we always do when transformers blow- check on neighbors, call it in (if we can), call family (if we can), check the farm then back to bed. If we can't get ahold of anyone, then its a trip to fams for lock and load.

Jager78 · Nov 20, 2014

charliemeyer007 said:
Fill anything that will hold water if you are on city water.

Radio stations not working is a very bad sign. Not having local news of an event is usual. Check your scanner for police/sheriff/ambulance/life flight for activity. Check your threat map of your Area of Operation. Maybe that chemical plant 15 miles blew up. What is the wind doing.

Go out and try to start your car.

All excellent ideas! I would also grab my Walther PPQ, ThruNite TN12 LED Flashlight, call relatives on my cellphone to check and see their situation, and keep our BOB's close. If we have to bug out then load the BOV with our reserve gasoline, water, rifles, clothes, and food within 12 minutes.

FortunateSon · Nov 20, 2014

As a kid living in Sacramento we awoke to a near continuous earth shaking and distant thunder. We left the house and sat on the front lawn until we found out what was happening. A train carrying a munitions load destined for Viet Nam was exploding North of us.
Point is you cannot react intelligently until you know what the situation is.

Jeff F · Nov 21, 2014

Yehudi said:
WHADDAYADO When TSHTF With No Warning…..at Night

Here is the scenario. It is late at night and there has been no indication of any civil strive, flood, earthquake, or other disaster. Suddenly you are awakened by a several Very Loud but distant sounds that you cannot immediately identify. The lights go out everywhere, then there is silence. There is nothing on the TV or the radio. What do you do?

If I'm at home stay there and fire up the HAM radios, if I'm away from home, fire up the 2 meter/70 cm and head for home!

Jeff F · Nov 21, 2014

FortunateSon said:
As a kid living in Sacramento we awoke to a near continuous earth shaking and distant thunder. We left the house and sat on the front lawn until we found out what was happening. A train carrying a munitions load destined for Viet Nam was exploding North of us.
Point is you cannot react intelligently until you know what the situation is.

Dude in the eighty's I was working for a telecommunications company and was digging a trench at the Roseville train yard and dug up an unexploded bomb that had bee buried from that explosion.

jefmax · Nov 21, 2014

No cell power? Car, radios, electronics not working? If I suspected an EMP I would immediately prepare for a blast and nuclear fallout. In many nuclear scenarios an EMP blast at high altitude precedes incoming nukes. Plan and prepare accordingly.

Yehudi · Nov 21, 2014

Some really great replies. The OP scenario includes no radio or TV which is probably not realistic. Even if the disaster was global, such as a KT level asteroid/comet strike or Yellowstone Caldera erupting, there would still be tv and radio transmissions for quite a while, perhaps several days. Unless there were massive EMP events covering 100% of the Earth, there would still be stations transmitting with emergency generators. So perhaps there are radio and TV stations on the air, but they don’t know what is happening either. Same effect, more realistic.

My curiosity wouldn’t let me get back to sleep until I found out what caused the catastrophe and what was involved.

BugoutChance · Nov 21, 2014

BAMCIS! Haha, but really I would assess the situation. If need be, I would pack up the family, hook up to the bug out trailer and get to the BOL. If it were anything else I would see if anyone needed help (something relatively close to my house) or go back to bed.

TMcArthur · Nov 21, 2014

Wake up. Interface with neighbors. Gather data. There will something somewhere on the radio, even if it is overseas. If it is a nuclear explosion there won't be the slightest doubt.

AceScanner · Nov 21, 2014

If by nothing on TV or radio you mean the informercials are still playing but there is no news, then I'd probably listen to the scanner for a while and go back to bed. Power failures are common here. I'd call the power-out line to let the co-op know its out.

If nothing means no commercial transmission, then make a pot of coffee, grab a Geiger counter from my office, and wake up the other adults.

Ace

Yehudi said:
WHADDAYADO When TSHTF With No Warning…..at Night

Here is the scenario. It is late at night and there has been no indication of any civil strive, flood, earthquake, or other disaster. Suddenly you are awakened by a several Very Loud but distant sounds that you cannot immediately identify. The lights go out everywhere, then there is silence. There is nothing on the TV or the radio. What do you do?

mikerx · Nov 21, 2014

Have a plan, and practice, before something happens. Know where all family members are at all times. Nothing worse than not knowing who that shadow is lurking by the door. Predetermine a safe room or gathering place.

Once the SHTF then everyone should know, who, what, when and where, but plans have a way of going off the rails so practice makes perfect. Chaos will probably rule in most cases unless you have practiced as a group for a considerable period.

Krazy K · Nov 21, 2014

Put on a pot of coffee(you do have propane, right?) and fire up the battery operated police scanner.

Ray DO · Nov 21, 2014

Krazy K said:
Put on a pot of coffee(you do have propane, right?) and fire up the battery operated police scanner.

I'd have my scanner on while I get the coffee ready to brew.

Apok · Nov 22, 2014

Immediately check my mobile phone, if thats working it wasn't a nuke and i can carry on sleeping.

That exact thing has happened to me once. A transformer blew in town causing a temporary blackout for a couple of hours. No biggy.

If my mobile is dead and the missus' mobile is dead AND the work mobile is dead. I'll make a coffee, get dressed, leave a note for the missus, take a walkie-talkie out of the safe and ride the bike into town (if the car doesn't work) to suss out if it REALLY is an EMP event. If i'm utterly convinced, i'll ride to work and see how i can help out with the emergency response.

tooltime · Nov 23, 2014

I do not think a EMP would happen at night. If i am home and seems and a EMP type thing happened i hope to go out and move the bird bath,the house # post etc. I live right at a curve on a dead end st that is gravel. So maybe by doing this and some other things people may not think a house is up there. I am hoping to try to hide my house better next spring by planting pine trees and other bushes that is around there

slightly disturbed · Nov 23, 2014

Cycle a round, and go back to bed. I'm a cripple and to darn lazy to put pants on when I could be sleeping. My dog will let me know if someone is outside

badlands · Nov 24, 2014

I would roll over, shake my wife awake and tell her to go see what's going on, and Oh yeah.. Make some coffee while your up.:thumb:

TMcArthur · Nov 24, 2014

Probably exactly the same thing I did when the Northridge quake hit.

jim243 · Nov 24, 2014

If nuclear, no problem, I am within 4.5 miles of a major airport (military target) so I would be dust in the wind. Non nuclear event, turn on the electronics if they worked to see what was happening, if no electronics available then go back to sleep till first light grab the bioc's and do some recon and grab whatever intel is available and return and bug in. Day 2 set up a scouting party and do some long range recon. Based on what we find then make plans.

Jim

franklin · Nov 24, 2014

IntroC said:
Run down the street yelling "run for your lives" while firing rounds in to the air. I say screw keeping calm. Lets friggen spaz out for a change.

That's just a normal Saturday nigh in west Philly.

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Jeff F

Jeff F

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Yehudi

BugoutChance

TMcArthur

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Krazy K

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Apok

tooltime

slightly disturbed

badlands

TMcArthur

jim243

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