One Second After, written by William Forstchen is a great book. There is always debate as to whether events of an electro-magnetic pulse would follow in the time line he suggests. Many sidewalk experts who have never been through such an event tell us (or try to) that things would or would not progress according to his suggested time line, blah..blah..blah. I don't care about his time line and I don't care about the amount of chaos that would begin only a week into the event. Bottom line is, when people have lost everything they have nothing left to loose. The book itself gives a good overall view of just how society in the United States can and will be devastated by the loss of our electronic gizmos and gadgets. As he points out, people who live in the mountains are usually no more prepared for disaster than city folk and city folk always think mountain folk know how to live off the land, only thing is the mountain folk have been spoiled by grocery stores just like you and I have. Please consider purchasing his book either in paper back or in audio format like I did. The book on audio was easy for me to listen to on the way to work and home and it took me two weeks to get through it only because the problems and events he points out are the type to hit very close to home.
Get the book and read it as if you needed a cold slap in the face to get your butt in gear and get prepping!
Here are links to a talk he gave this past weekend in North Carolina, it is in four parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJJyiiuLRc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBF7fFpz1CY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVRwutDyAQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIppfw_o0dE&feature=related
Get Ready!
