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1. @ Water shortage in Cape Town – while South Africa certainly has a water problem, placing blame entirely on the drought is too much. I think their larger problem is the population growth in Cape Town and government failing to expand their infrastructure in accordance with population dynamics. So, what happens when the city runs out of water? My guess is that people leave the city to move to another city.

   1. State water Projects?
      California governor Pat Brown would later say it was to “correct an accident of people and geography”.

      1. I do not understand the context.

2. A wooden crate and hardware cloth do not a Faraday cage make. That was a terrible design.

3. Re: Faraday Cage.

   A large metal popcorn tin lined with bubble wrap works goods for our hand-held ham radios and small electronic items. We tested for protection with and without metal tape sealing its lid and found the tape not necessary. Cheap (look for them at Christmas time), simple, and easy open/close.

   1. Roger D,
      Do you ground the popcorn tin/Faraday cage? Or not?
      Seems to me that you would want to ground the cage.

      1. It may sound oddly counterintuitive, but grounding is good for lightning protection but BAD for EMP/solar flare protection. For that, you will want complete isolation. DO NOT ground a Faraday cage.

4. Chronic Wasting Disease
   Is this CWD in deer = CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) in people = Mad Cow in bovines?
   And what, if anything, is being done to develop tests to detect it while one is still alive?
   (current detection seems to center on end-of-life advanced symptoms, and brain dissection after death)

   (personal rant) I’m asking because it seems to me that Red Cross is continuing to ask more people to donate blood, while rejecting people who have spent any appreciable time overseas, because they MAY have been exposed to Mad Cow, and MAY carry the prions for CJD—-all without working to try and develop a test to detect if one has those prions/that disease or not. (end rant)

5. CWD was impacting deer in the redoubt in the 1990’s. Campbell, Sheridan, and Johnson Counties of Wyomng. I sat at the desk next to our government biologist.

   So all those who are ‘going to live off deer’ hunting will obviously have to turn their rifles onto other targets. Look up the phrase , “Slow Elk”, as used by those in cattle country.

   If you want meat protein, invest now into a small animal operation that is fairly protected. ideally, partner up with someone with experience.

   Or learn how to hunt and cook gophers. A Savage .17 WSM works pretty well unless prairie winds affect trajectory.

6. Faraday Cage: take a new electronic item in box you want to protect and double wrap in aluminum foil (wrap like a gift wrap Christmas present). Use aluminum foil adhesive tape over the seams (tape like that is in hardware store for taping duct insulation ). Keep stored until after EMP. Simplest faraday Cage possible and effective.

7. My Fainting goat herd are prolific breeders and they have the best , sweetest , creamiest milk of all breeds . Average two babies every 5 months if you let them breed freely which I seldom do . The Slow Food Usa group dedicated to heritage/heirloom foods has what they call ” The Ark of Taste ” in which they choose the best tasting heirloom food of every category and the Fainting goat is their choice for goats . Not at all like any other goat meat but very close to beef with a tiny bit of Lamb thrown in . They are also very entertaining and will bond with humans and any other critters . They eat plants that no other will eat and thrive on it . I named one girl Ivy cause she ate every Ivy/Sumac/Oak plant on the farm . Another we called Rosie and she keeps the multi-flora roses in check . Yeah ! Thorns and all .

8. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.jsonline.com/amp/1149433002

   New rules for hunters here in Wisconsin to reduce spread of CWD.

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