_Zero Hour: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Fiction Series (The Blackout Series) (Volume 2)_ by Bobby Akart

[Lynn McGuire]

_Zero Hour: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Fiction Series (The Blackout
Series) (Volume 2)_ by Bobby Akart

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Hour-Post-Apocalyptic-Survival-Blackout/dp/1537303236/

Book number two of a six book apocalyptic series about a Solar CME
(coronal mass ejection) event. I read the POD (print on demand) trade
paperback with very nice paper and fonts (Big River's POD presses are
most excellent, even better than lulu.com). I am now reading the third
book in the series. I will be ordering the other three books in the
series soon.

The first book in the series is about the 36 hours of warning that the
Earth's astronomers are giving in order to prepare for the massive CME
event. The second book starts at the CME event and talks about the two
weeks after the event. Basically, most people only have a week of food
stored in their house and little water. During the second week, things
get desperate as roving gangs start breaking into homes for food and water.

This book is different from most post apocalyptic EMP books as a CME
event is very different from an EMP event. The author includes 50+
appendix pages on EMP, CME, and RF events in the book. He also includes
a 500 item prepping list of materials to stockpile. BTW, Lloyds of
London has written a damage estimate to the USA for a Carrington level
solar storm to be around two trillion dollars. Since this is an
apocalyptic book, the author makes the strength of the solar storm to be
way in excess of the Carrington 1859 storm. On other words, a Superflare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

The book is somewhat dated even though it was published in 2016. First,
the USA President is Hillary Clinton. Second, the Chinese space station
is manned and stable whereas the Chinese space station is now abandoned
and getting ready to fall to Earth later this year.

In fact, the author makes the effects of the CME event much worse over
time. The solar storm overwhelms the shielding on the ISS
(International Space Station) and the Chinese space station, Tiangong-1.
The two space stations collide soon after the solar storm and the
wreckage falls to Earth a couple of days after the CME event off the
coast of California. The resulting tsunami wave, 300 ft tall, kills 20
million people in California since there were no warnings due to the
solar storm killing off the electrical grids worldwide.

The author maintains at least two websites:
http://www.bobbyakart.com/
and
http://freedompreppers.com/

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (179 reviews)

Lynn

[Dimensional Traveler]

On 6/23/2017 11:22 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
> In fact, the author makes the effects of the CME event much worse over
> time. The solar storm overwhelms the shielding on the ISS
> (International Space Station) and the Chinese space station, Tiangong-1.
> The two space stations collide soon after the solar storm and the
> wreckage falls to Earth a couple of days after the CME event off the
> coast of California. The resulting tsunami wave, 300 ft tall, kills 20
> million people in California since there were no warnings due to the
> solar storm killing off the electrical grids worldwide.
>

Dafuq? Even the Boxing Day tsunamis, caused by a _measurable shift in
the planet's crust_ didn't come even close to that.

--
Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation
instinct are running screaming.

[Scott Lurndal]

Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> writes:
>On 6/23/2017 11:22 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>> In fact, the author makes the effects of the CME event much worse over
>> time. The solar storm overwhelms the shielding on the ISS
>> (International Space Station) and the Chinese space station, Tiangong-1.
>> The two space stations collide soon after the solar storm and the
>> wreckage falls to Earth a couple of days after the CME event off the
>> coast of California. The resulting tsunami wave, 300 ft tall, kills 20
>> million people in California since there were no warnings due to the
>> solar storm killing off the electrical grids worldwide.
>>
>Dafuq? Even the Boxing Day tsunamis, caused by a _measurable shift in
>the planet's crust_ didn't come even close to that.

Not to mention that a collision between the two space stations
in the unlikely event that their orbits would ever intersect,
would simply create a large debris field that would, over time,
mostly burn up in the atmosphere with any remaining pieces highly
unlikely to be of sufficient size to raise a simple wave, much less
any form of tsunami.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Very valid, thank you. I think I saw "300 ft tall, kills 20 million"
and my brain just seized up. Couldn't even begin to think of all the
myriad ways that is just SO FREAKING WRONG. *ahem* Makes the "1 EMP
wipes out the US" thing from other books seem almost reasonable.

[Carl Fink]

On 2017-06-23, Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

> Not to mention that a collision between the two space stations
> in the unlikely event that their orbits would ever intersect,
> would simply create a large debris field that would, over time,
> mostly burn up in the atmosphere with any remaining pieces highly
> unlikely to be of sufficient size to raise a simple wave, much less
> any form of tsunami.

Yeah, the tsunami is so bizarrely nonsensical, I guarantee it would ruin the
book for anyone who knows science and thinks this is "science" fiction. It's
like writing that I dropped my pencil and destroyed New York with a seismic
event.
--
Carl Fink nitpi...@nitpicking.com

Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations!
Stupid mistakes you can correct!

[Robert Carnegie]

Maybe assume that Lynn turned over two pages
instead of one and the satellites landed right
on the San Apocalypse Fault and caused an
earthquake.

[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote in
news:f5456a6f-6ece-4569...@googlegroups.com:

That doesn't work either. The Pacific plate is, by and large,
riding on top of the North Atlantic plate, so Californi is rising
up out of hte ocean, not sinking into it. The tidal wave would go
the other way.

--
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

[Lynn McGuire]

On 6/23/2017 1:34 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 6/23/2017 11:22 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>> In fact, the author makes the effects of the CME event much worse over
>> time. The solar storm overwhelms the shielding on the ISS
>> (International Space Station) and the Chinese space station,
>> Tiangong-1. The two space stations collide soon after the solar
>> storm and the wreckage falls to Earth a couple of days after the CME
>> event off the coast of California. The resulting tsunami wave, 300 ft
>> tall, kills 20 million people in California since there were no
>> warnings due to the solar storm killing off the electrical grids
>> worldwide.
>>
> Dafuq? Even the Boxing Day tsunamis, caused by a _measurable shift in
> the planet's crust_ didn't come even close to that.

300 tons coming in at 20,000 mph ???

Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * mass * velocity squared

Yes, that does sound light for a tsunami wave higher than an inch.

Lynn

[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oik6g7$lv3$1...@dont-email.me:

According to Wikipedia, the 2004 earthquake released enough energy
to equal 550 million Hiroshima bombs. The highest the tidal waves
reached 100 feet. The harmonic oscillations were detectable for
four months afterwards.

So that must have been one hell of a space station.

[-dsr-]

On 2017-06-23, Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

Unlikely, you say. Yeah, a little.

The orbits for both stations are public knowledge.

They don't share an orbital inclination. so they rarely have the
opportunity for an long/lat intercept.

Their closest absolute altitude approach is more than 80 Km difference.

The ISS orbit loses 2Km per month without boosting.

If Tiangong managed to stay put, and the ISS lost control, it would take
a minimum of 40 months to put them in the same altitude.

In order for the collision to happen as a result of this CME, it could
not happen for 3+ years. In order to get it to happen a few days after the
event, NASA and CNSA would have had to set it up years ahead of time. Not
secretly, either. Random amateurs watch the ISS orbit; they would notice.

The ISS is about a million pounds; Tiangong-1 is about 20,000. They
are both low-density metal shells around essentially empty interiors.

Larger, denser asteroids hit every couple of months. Mostly in the
ocean.

Clearly we should evacuate California immediately.

-dsr-

[Dimensional Traveler]

First problem is they won't come down at 20,000 MPH. They'll hit at
around terminal velocity which is closer to 200 MPH.

We've also had any number of satellites come down already. Including
Skylab, which landed in Australia near Esperance. There's a small
museum there which displays the pieces recovered, including a somewhat
scorched battered but still intact oxygen tank.

The second problem is that the amount of water displaced by the stations
impacting isn't actually going to be that much. More kinetic energy
will vaporize more water but won't really make that much bigger of a
splash. To get that multi-hundred foot rise will take an impactor miles
across.

[Greg Goss]

Yeah. The kind of writer who gives a fifty page appendix on the CME
and then does THAT???

If you want a multi-hundred foot wave wiping out the west coast, there
was a novel that took out Hanford with a domino series of dam
failures. (quick google).

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christopher-hyde-2/the-wave-6/

Richland nuclear site?

At the time, I lived two dams below Revelstoke, just under where they
were about to start building Murphy's Dam. (Thirty years later, that
dam is still in the planning stages.
http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/getfile.jsp?PostID=33485&FileID=42357&action=view
)
--
We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.

[Cryptoengineer]

Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote in news:oikb3f$1u1$1@dont-
email.me:

When the MIR spacestation was deorbited in 2001, waves weren't even a
consideration. Bits falling off was it reentered were.

pt

[Robert Carnegie]

On Saturday, 24 June 2017 03:36:22 UTC+1, Greg Goss wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
> >On 6/23/2017 12:17 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> >> Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> writes:
> >>> On 6/23/2017 11:22 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
> >>> Dafuq? Even the Boxing Day tsunamis, caused by a _measurable shift in
> >>> the planet's crust_ didn't come even close to that.
> >>
> >> Not to mention that a collision between the two space stations
> >> in the unlikely event that their orbits would ever intersect,
> >> would simply create a large debris field that would, over time,
> >> mostly burn up in the atmosphere with any remaining pieces highly
> >> unlikely to be of sufficient size to raise a simple wave, much less
> >> any form of tsunami.
> >>
> >Very valid, thank you. I think I saw "300 ft tall, kills 20 million"
> >and my brain just seized up. Couldn't even begin to think of all the
> >myriad ways that is just SO FREAKING WRONG. *ahem* Makes the "1 EMP
> >wipes out the US" thing from other books seem almost reasonable.
>
> Yeah. The kind of writer who gives a fifty page appendix on the CME
> and then does THAT???

He (or she?) knows what readers want to see.

Maybe when the station hits the water,
the antimatter containment field fails.

Or, the flooding is caused by 40 million
Californians going to the bathroom at the
exact same time.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Interesting thought. How would a population react if you had a 50/50
chance of getting killed every time you flushed the toilet? :)