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2012 Disaster Scenarios
- What Are the Terrible Events We Must
Prepare to Survive?
There are nine possible
cataclysmic events for 2012 that would
create disaster conditions of a scale
that humanity has never experienced before.
We're talking millions, maybe billions
of dead worldwide, and a breakdown of
society that may take a thousand years
to recover from If it ever recovers at
all. But if you're properly prepared all
these scenarios are survivable. So as
every good soldier knows, we need to get
acquainted with the enemy, so we can figure
out the best way to beat him.
Here they are in no particular order
Unrestricted Global Nuclear War
There are a lot of bad guys out there
these days with nuclear capability. From
a survival point of view it doesn't matter
who starts it or why, because the end
result is the same - global cataclysm
straight from hell. So given your family
survives the initial atomic blasts and
their immediate effects, there are a couple
of other major things to worry about -
Radiation and the Nuclear Winter.
Radiation
Atomic reactions create radio-active
particles which spread out from ground
zero, and when they reach high altitude
are fanned out by high-level winds. The
radio-active particles eventually make
their way back down to earth as 'Fall-Out'.
'Fall-Out can cause burns and terminal
radiation sickness, kill livestock and
contaminate soil and the crops that are
grown in it. A massive region around the
Chernobyl Reactor in Russia is essentially
dead ground forever, and that was just
an itty-bitty reactor melt-down, not a
multi-megaton airburst.
Nuclear winter
When you've got a lot of massive atomic
explosions at ground level, an incredible
amount of dirt and debris is going to
be thrown up into the atmosphere - we're
talking millions of tons of black radio-active
dust swirling around ten miles high, blocking
the sun from reaching the Earth's surface.
We might not see the sun again for two
or three years, and without it, it's going
to get real cold and nothing's going to
grow. Huge areas of the planet will turn
into dust-bowls and sand storms will blast
across Europe and North America.
However there will be places mostly in
the southern Hemisphere and in the North
that are far enough from blast zones to
escape most of the radiation and fall-out,
and are protected from most of the effects
of the nuclear winter. That's where you
want to you and your family want to be
to maximize your chance of staying alive
in 2012.
Impact from Space
This is the very worst of all worst case
scenarios. Whether it's the mystery planet
Nibiru, a comet or a monster asteroid,
having a massive Near Earth Object (NEO)
smash into the Earth is all bad. So if
you're ready to survive this you're ready
for anything! Earth has experienced major
NEO strikes many times before, and the
biggest of all 65 million years ago made
the dinosaurs extinct, overnight. If a
NEO hits land we'll get a situation like
the nuclear winter we talked about above,
plus a devastating shock-wave, molten
lava showers, earthquakes, landslides
and volcanic eruptions.
Not even all the atom bombs in the world
going off all at once would have a millionth
of the power of a NEO impacting our planet.
The NEO Impact winter could last decades
and plunge the Earth into a new ice-age.
If a NEO lands in the ocean we'll get
multiple tsunamis many hundreds of feet
high, plus giant earthquakes caused by
displacement of tectonic plates that make
up the Earth's crust. Low-lying counties
will be turned into fetid swamps, ravaged
by disease.We're likely to get very little
warning of an asteroid strike - maybe
only hours or even minutes because they
travel so fast and are almost invisible
against the blackness of space.
On the other hand we may have several
months to prepare for an impact by Nibiru
or a comet. Unfortunately they are the
least likely objects to hit us. So what
will it be like in the aftermath of a
NEO impact?
Arriving at the speed several thousand
miles per hour a giant SEO will have enough
power on impact to fracture the Earth's
crust and splash molten lava from the
core high into the atmosphere. A massive
thousand degree shock-wave will also radiate
outwards from Ground-Zero completely levelling
trees and buildings for a hundreds of
miles in every direction. In an ocean
impact, seawater will combine with the
lava to cause a super-heated steam blast,
plus acid rain. This burning rain would
continue falling for years, scouring away
every living plant and contaminating all
water sources (other than artesian springs
in the mountains). To survive a massive
NEO strike you'll need to be far underground,
and far from the point of impact to stand
any chance at all. However there is still
a good chance that the NEO that hits Earth
will not be a giant, and that increases
your chances of survival massively - as
long as you're prepared that is. Otherwise,
no matter where you are, it's time to
kiss your ass goodbye.
Solar Flares
The sun is an enormous atomic reactor
in the sky. Every now and then extra intense
reactions in the sun's atmosphere occur
and solar energy spears out into space.
That's a Solar Flare. Small Solar Flares
are detected by astronomers all the time
and usually don't affect us, because our
atmosphere safely absorbs and deflects
the extra radiation. But, if 2012 means
a giant Solar Flare, the Earth's surface
and everything on it could be barbequed
in minutes by radiation spread across
the whole electromagnetic spectrum. We'd
have enough warning to get into bunkers,
but only if they were very close by. How
bad it will be for your family also depends
whether it occurs in the night or day
- you definitely don't want to be outside
at noon when a doomsday flare bursts overhead.
The good news is it's relatively easy
to build a shelter that will absorb almost
all the energy of a Solar Flare, even
a giant one, so surviving the event isn't
necessarily the hard part. The real challenge
will be staying alive afterwards in what's
left of the world outside your shelter.
Super Volcano Eruption
Mount St Helens or Pinatubo are nothing
compared to the dormant super volcano
that forms Yellowstone National Park.
An eruption there would kill millions
and render a large portion of central
North America uninhabitable. The rest
of the world would suffer too from the
enormous cloud of volcanic ash thrown
up into the atmosphere, creating yet another
nuclear winter scenario. However Yellowstone
is just one location where super volcanoes
are lurking ready to erupt, on land and
under the ocean.
A monster undersea eruption would be
even more deadly, triggering a super tsunami
that would travel all around the world,
wiping out entire countries as it goes,
drowning millions and millions of people
within hours. For most people in coastal
areas, even low lying places inland, there
would be no escape. However those families
smart enough or just plain lucky enough
to be in non-volcanic areas, on solid
ground at over 1000 feet in elevation,
will be in better shape - but for how
long?
Earthquake
It's not a question of when 'the big
one' will happen, but where and when.
Major displacements of many of the world's
biggest tectonic plates are well overdue
- including California's mighty San Andreas
Fault, which would kill millions in LA
and along the West Coast.
The very worst place to be in an earthquake
is a city, especially in a high-rise building,
or in the streets below. Damage from most
earthquakes on land, even massive ones
are usually quite localised, but if we
get one under the sea we get a Tsunami.
The Indonesian Tsunami of Christmas 2005
killed over one hundred thousand people
- drowned or crushed by falling buildings
and tumbling debris, or dying later of
disease and starvation. If you saw the
footage of the FBI carpark during the
Samoa Tsunami in 2009 you'll take Tsunamis
very seriously - and that was only 3 feet
high!
I guess it's pretty obvious where you
want to be to avoid a giant Tsunami? Up
very high, far away from the sea. The
trouble is, with this scenario like most
of the others, the disaster itself is
not the only threat - you need to be prepared
to deal with other people who've survived,
but haven't prepared for it like you have.
Most of them will be desperate, and will
want what you've got.
Super Virus or Bacteria
The biggest killers in recorded history
have been diseases. The Black Plague of
the 14th Century was an incurable bacteria
spread by fleas living on rats. In some
European towns up to 90% of the population
was wiped out. Overall in the 100 years
of the Black Plague, 30% of the population
of Europe died. And much more recently,
within living memory in fact, the Influenza
Pandemic of 1919 killed tens of millions
all over the world.
New disease threats are arising all the
time. We've handled Bird Flu and Swine
Flu pretty well, but will 2012 be the
year when the next real plague arrives.
International air travel virtually guarantees
its almost instant global spread, especially
to people living in big, overcrowded cities.
And that's the clue to survival in this
scenario. Fit, healthy families who live
in remote rural areas in clean, warm houses
and have absolutely minimal contact with
the outside world, should be feeling pretty
good about their chances.
Polar Reversal
Polar Reversal where the magnetic field
of the Earth swaps ends is a fact. It
happens every 400,000 years or so, but
what causes it is still unknown. Polar
Reversal could be due to the influence
of an undiscovered Black Hole nearby in
space, or a massive sudden upsurge in
electro-magnetic activity on the sun.
Some 2012 experts believe a Polar Reversal
will cause the Earth to start spinning
in the opposite direction - a horrifying
scenario resulting in massive electrical
storms, tsunamis and earthquakes in every
corner of the earth. Again the smart money
is on surviving underground in the mountains.
And preferably ancient mountains made
of solid rock like the mighty Appalachians.
Black Hole in Space
We touched on this scenario before, but
now we'll get more specific. A Black Hole
is what's left over when a giant dying
star collapses into a very dense ball
of Matter - a ball much smaller than our
Moon. This stuff is so dense that a matchbox
full of Black Hole Matter would weigh
countless thousands of tons. And the thing
is that it still has the massive gravitational
pull of the huge star whose death created
it. In fact, its gravity is so strong
that it can swallow up anything within
millions of miles - it even pulls in light
(which is why they are called Black Holes,
because not even light can escape them).
A Black Hole suddenly appearing in space,
even within several Light-Years of Earth
would pull our entire solar system towards
it, throwing the orbit of every planet
out of kilter. We could collide with Venus,
Mars or the Moon. Or the combined gravitational
pull of the Black hole aligned with Jupiter
and Saturn could rip us away from warmth
of the sun, or send us plunging towards
it. Either way, the surface of the Earth
would quickly become uninhabitable. The
only place to survive would be underground
in caves or bunkers.
Global Flooding
The Bible tells us that Noah had 100
years warning of the Great Flood and used
his time to prepare for it, building the
ark and collecting animals. We will not
have the luxury of so much time to get
ready if another great flood is going
to engulf the world in 2012. Around 60%
of the world's population live in areas
that would be totally submerged by a flood
of only 20 feet high. That's almost three
billion people threatened with being drowned.
The panic as they all try to get to higher
ground simultaneously is almost unimaginable.
And for most of them higher ground will
be beyond their reach.
Already the threat of Global Warming
and the gradually rising sea levels that
will come with it has lead a lot of people
to think about the consequences for them
and their loved ones if this scenario
comes to pass. However a flood in 2012
would come much more suddenly - accompanied
by massive hurricanes with hundred mile
per hour winds and days of unrelenting
torrential rain. Roads will be made impassable
within hours. Remember Hurricane Katrina?
This will be 1000 times worse.
So what could cause the next Great Flood?
The most likely scenario is a near miss
by Planet Nibiru. If Nibiru passes between
the Earth and the Sun, its gravitational
pull could upset the Earth's orbit pulling
us closer to the sun, resulting in a rapid
increase in air and sea temperatures.
The warmer conditions would mean much
faster evaporation of water into the atmosphere.
At the same time Nibiru's near miss would
accelerate the speed that the earth spins,
causing the Jet Stream (high altitude
winds) to speed up as well. And as anyone
who knows their weather can tell you,
when rapidly rising, hot moisture-laden
air and the Jet Stream meet you get one
thing - Super Storms. And here's the thing,
we won't get just one Super Storm. We'll
get hundreds all over the world, with
rain like no one has ever seen before,
maybe not even Noah.
But that's not all. Even folks living
on a lot of the Earth's higher ground
won't be safe. Widespread catastrophic
landslides would come hand in hand with
the 2012 Great Flood. Sodden hillsides
would give way without warning and plunge
to the valleys below, carrying with them
whole cities. In recent years landslides
have killed countless thousands in South
America and China.
The Alaskan Tsunami of 1963 was caused
by landslide triggered by an earthquake.
The end wall of a fjord collapsed into
the water, sending a wave over 1000 feet
high towards the ocean, obliterating everything
in its path.
Of course the survival solution to this
final scenario is pretty clear. Be in
mountain areas where the high slopes are
primarily made from solid, stable rock,
and make sure to stay out of the valleys,
which due to the heavy rain will rapidly
become raging torrents.
OK so that's the bad news. Now let's
see what we can do about helping your
family to survive the worst 2012 can throw
at you.
Mike Kerrigan a Special Forces survival
expert has put together 'The Ultimate
2012 Family Survival Manual' which contains
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