Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath | 
pickThird and last 🎧book that my husband and I listened to as we drove across 🇨🇦 on our epic road trip! Well worth the read. Part I gets technical with the details of how the electric grid works, including vulnerabilities. A little dry in places. Part II focuses on how unprepared the US is for a cyberattack or EMP that takes out the whole grid. Scary stuff! Part III was the most interesting. Features interviews with preppers + LDS church members.
pickThis was interesting and more than a little scary. My favorite part was the section on how certain groups, including the LDS church, have prepared for potential emergencies. But even they hadn‘t fully prepared for what would happen with no electricity in a wide section of the country. The book was written a few years ago so some improvement may have happened on a national level but I doubt it. Koppel is of course good at asking questions!
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Wow! Probably not the best book to read right now, but Ted Koppel presents some very intriguing, although scary, scenarios of what would happen if we were forced to live without power and computers. I sometimes forget just how much we depend on electricity for things.
Josh insists that I name something for my birthday and Christmas. And I have to be exact. I finally caved and said I wanted a reading light for behind the couch. It‘s a floor lamp that looks like a light bulb.
He didn‘t do bad. He found the table lamp. Now I just have to find a table to put it on.
The nice thing about living 5 minutes from your daughter is that when your power goes out and hers stays on, you can haul your wet laundry to her apartment, eat leftover tacos, and continue your west wing marathon...#snowday
Hear is our reality right now. Hopefully it‘s only an hour and a half until we get power back. At least I have light to read.
"While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, he is not entitled to his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Circuit breaker is down and our entire neighborhood is without power.... kind of creepy...
so-soI confess dystopia/survivalist/post-apocalyptic fiction is favorite. This was a natural nonfiction pick for me. I thought it was well researched, but rambling. He takes the entire book tell us the electric grid is susceptible to cyberattack and there is no plan for the aftermath. You are on your own. Like it's fiction counterparts it makes me want to go out and buy all the things to save myself. But this book wouldn't help you with that task.
Those charged with restoring the nation after such an attack will have to come to terms with the notion that the Internet, among its many, many virtues, is also a weapon of mass destruction.
...we're all doomed.
I just know I'm gonna come out the other side of this book as some kind of disaster prepper and I'm not sure if I'm ready for that.
Book mail from Blogging for Books. This one is going to make me paranoid.
Super scary! Ted Koppel narrates the audio version. His premise is that an overlooked and very vulnerable terror target is our electricity grid. According to estimates, only 1 out of 10 of us would survive a year without juice. Scary stuff. Pack your emergency kit.
