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It's National Preparedness Month (read the proclamation here), and I'd like to highlight ways you can be prepared for emergencies of all types.

Here's a link to ready.gov to help you get started on your own plan for emergency preparedness.

What is Ready.gov? Here's part of their description from their web site:

Launched in February 2003, Ready is a national public service

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I found this video on YouTube today, and I thought it might help illustrate how EMP changes everything.

EMP is not just a threat to the nation's electric grid, which runs just about everything we use everyday. I think the "everything else" would be automobiles. Not only do we take cars to work and school, but we depend on the big trucks that deliver our food, medicine, and everything else we use everyday.

I haven't (yet) seen the rest of this Discovery Channel show, ...

In William R. Forstchen's novel One Second After, a missile carrying an EMP bomb is launched from a container ship off the coast of the USA, devastating our country, told from the perspective of a small community in North Carolina. The community is cut off from nearly all outside information because the EMP attack destroys the communication networks and the electric grid. Large numbers of people die from starvation, lack of medicines and the lack of medical care. In addition, there ...

Today at EMPact America, we had a fire drill. A common enough thing for kids in school, but not something adults have to go through very often. Every adult knows what to do when they hear an alarm or see the strobe light flashing.

But do we know what to do?

As the mass of people exited our building and the building next to ours (this was a coordinated drill for the entire campus), we all kind of wandered slowly over to a gathering point that had been designated ...

Thanks for visiting our site. My name is Thomas Woods, and as the new Director of Multimedia Technology and webmaster for EMPact America, it is my privilege to work with very talented and patriotic people.

I joined EMPact America last month, and I've been excited to work on the web site and help get the message out about this important issue. I'm certainly no expert in EMP, but I'm learning so much just by reading and editing web pages and talking to other members of the staff and ...