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by DL Tolleson

May 21, 2011—The New Dark Age of an EMP

So your alarm doesn't go off and you wake-up one morning late for work. If you take the time to go through an abbreviated morning routine, you quickly realize that the lights are out, the coffee maker isn't working and the refrigerator... Well, you get the idea—the power is still off.

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The upside is that since you’re late to work you skip the cold shower. After mismatching your socks in the dark of the room, you manage to rush out the door while dressing on the run. Once outside, you notice that most of the cars in your neighborhood—or in your apartment complex—are still there.

That’s weird, you think. Then you jump into your car, turn the key and...

Nothing. The car won’t start.

Just great.

So you whip out your trusty cell phone to call in late and it doesn't work either.

When it rains its pours.

You step out of your car to see one of your neighbors cussing his portable AM/FM radio. Having already learned everything you are just figuring out, your neighbor is now miffed at being unable to hear news from his non-working radio.

Now, on top of all that, you see another neighbor returning from a short walk to the local store. He reports that the store is powerless and the ATM at which he stopped isn't working.

Maybe a transformer went out, you think.

What you don't know is that across the entire country, no one has power.