WASHINGTON – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed the most powerful solar storm on our sun since 2005. The height of the resulting barrage of charged particles triggered by the solar flare is expected to last from early Tuesday, January 24 through Wednesday January 25. There are numerous solar storms of varying intensity but this may mark the beginning of a series of solar super-storms. The sun is nearing the height of a predictable 11 year cycle. That cycle will culminate with its greatest solar activity between March and December 2012. An
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Homeowners have a number of concerns with household safety and protection. While many of these concerns reflect mundane life, some concerns reflect the global economy and the state of tension between world powers. With modern technology, a nuclear war is not the only global catastrophe we may face. Electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) are bursts of electromagnetic
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“For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.” (Matthew 24:27) Of course, in this context, I hasten to add, “But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven,
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We are a society addicted to gadgets. Many of us would not know what to do without our computers, cell phones, televisions, toasters…you get the idea. Because of this, when we think about the possibility of an EMP or solar storm, one of our first concerns is protecting these precious electronics. But the truth of
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In an emergency, how you spend your energy in the first few minutes, and sometimes hours or days, is critical in determining the final outcome of the situation. This is one of the reasons preparing is so important. It helps you make the right decisions to survive. But miscalculations during the same time period will
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A decade ago everyone, from experts to the guy that had just discovered blogs, was predicting a breakdown in society due to what has come to be known as Y2K. The ensuing scare resulted from a very real possibility: because of its shortsightedness in its programming in the 1960s through the 1980s, the Information Technology
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It has been well established by military experts, congressionally-commissioned studies, and intelligence reports, that an attack on our country by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is as close to an inevitability as any possible mode of attack. It is also the consensus of all that an EMP burst centered 250 miles over the center of our country
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