{"id":29323,"date":"2012-07-05T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=29323"},"modified":"2012-07-16T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T03:38:12","slug":"if-one-storm-can-turn-d-c-dark-for-several-days-what-would-a-massive-emp-burst-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/if-one-storm-can-turn-d-c-dark-for-several-days-what-would-a-massive-emp-burst-do\/","title":{"rendered":"If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Days What Would A Massive EMP Burst Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.\u00a0 <!--more-->Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it is being projected that some people may not get power back until the end of the week.\u00a0 The &#8220;super derecho&#8221; storm that pounded the Washington D.C. area on Friday night with hurricane-force winds is being called unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that there are other events that could happen that would be far more damaging to our power grid.\u00a0 For example, a substantial EMP burst over a major U.S. city would fry virtually all of the electronics in the city and take the power grid in the area down indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.hawaiinewsdaily.com\/2012\/07\/if-one-storm-can-turn-d-c-dark-for-several-days-what-would-a-massive-emp-burst-do\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c143e244-7a46-4f4d-ac73-db9dfa4aa65e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[2196,5599,3293,2135,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29323"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29326,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions\/29326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}