No, a chain will not protect against an EMP. They will help keep your car grounded. Go to Amazon and look for EMP PROTECTION. They have protection for Cars, Home , and Generators.

I live in Washington State. I am always trying to figure in the bag situation. Your bag , in bag, in bag is an excellent idea, thanks for sharing.

Meant 2019/2020 – some say static straps are not necessary or worth the effort – I’m keeping mine just in case – better to have a static strap and not need it than to need a static strap and not have one installed.

NAPA sells static straps – when I replaced mine approx 2010/2020 they cost ap[prox. $15. I also use a thick piece of swingset chain for redundancy.

Does anyone know. If a grounding chain attached to your car frame. Will protect against. Electro magnetic pulse bomb ???? Thank you. Dr Ron Klatz.

Get Started, is the first step. When I began this prepping lifestyle 8 years ago, I started with an EDC, limited to those items that would enable me to safely get home from anywhere in the general area of my town in a 24 to 48 hour period of time ON FOOT. Mike’s on the money, in stating there are as many You Must Have This To Survive Lists out there as there are people with opinions, so take most of them with a grain of salt. There is a lot of contradictory information out there, as well as people making money off the fear factor, and it’s sometimes difficult to discern and dependent upon one’s life experiences to separate the real and practical from the dubious.
Those of us who’ve spent a lot of time in the great outdoors during our lives, do have an advantage over folks that haven’t, but it’s not impossible to learn. Reading what you can and participating in forums and discussions is a ready and inexpensive way to separate the chaff from the wheat. Posters like Mike, bring a lot of practical first hand knowledge to discussions, concerning everything from A to Z, and like Mike, it comes from a willingness to help. Even those of us raised to hunt, fish, backpack and so on, were all beginners at some point in our lives, and some forget that when they post. I enjoy Mike’s comments because I believe we think along the same lines on most of the topics.
Everything that goes into your bag, needs to be practical and applicable to you, your situation, and your long term goals for surviving whatever TEOTAWKI scenario we may face.
Mike puts a big emphasis on knowing/learning how to use the items in your gear, and I strongly second that, and a good way to learn that is to spend time relying on the item(s) during a camping trip. You’ll not only know how, you’ll learn the limitations each item has as well.
At 60, I learn my own age related limitations every day it seems. 30 years ago, I could’ve walked with a 75# pack to our Bug Out location 70 miles away in 2-3 days. Now at 60, I know that 75#’s is too much, and it will take at least a week to get there. Shah, the Joys of joining the Grey Panthers

Mike, I have read your comments and they are probably the best I’ve seen on the web ever. You have a structured way of thinking that is extremely rare. Will not tell too much about myself but I live in Scandinavia, which is a low risk area but consider preparedness not as a SHTF fear but more as mitigating experiences of my childhood when storms could make power cut off for days. I grew up on a farm and with no expectations of others to solve our problems. For you in the US, who have encountered severe hurricanes recently, I’d say that only the village idiot would not prepare for this happening again. Similarily to how one author in the thread put it, you do not buy an insurence because you hope for something bad to happen. You just want to reduce the discomfort to you.

Just underscoring the importance of having all documents copied and in the BOB. We had a devastating flood here 3 years ago, and applying for assistance was a nightmare for everyone who was unprepared, which was pretty much everyone. We were lucky, but many had minutes in which to evacuate and lost their homes. All roads were washed out, so we were completely cut off until helicopter evac 3 days later. You’d be surprised ( or maybe not) how many people didn’t even have enough medication or even 3 days worth of food and water in the house. No one saw the whole thing coming- it really can happen.