You should be making/buying Faraday boxes for anything important you would want to rely on. Such as communications equipment and solar/wind power charge controllers and inverters.
Those using insulin or having other need for for refrigeration should look for a good, used RV propane powered refrigerator and propane stocks, and have extra circuit board electronics in Faraday boxes.
Of course, insulin supplies and propane will run out eventually. But, RV refrigerators will run a long time with a tiny flame powered from a home barbque grill tank.
great advice - useful in any power outage.
I was ‘out’ for 19 days in the ICE STORM of 1998 - and 5 days this last Christmas - enough to lose refrigerator foods.
re Faraday cages - would a box wrapped in copper screen that could set over a PC work - and or to include cell phone? - to preserve them until such time as the grid might go up again?
Also - I have refused to allow the ‘smart’ meter to be installed on my home - they, at least, can’t track which appliances/make/usage of same I use....and maybe ??? a bit harder to control my access?
Even so, the old meter is on the outside wall a foot from my inside wall - head of bed. I understand that it still omits EMPs - tho’ at a much lower level than the Smart meters???
Would a piece of copper screening between the meter and head of my bed interrupt the EMP’s? (I’m an old great gramma and my bed is far to heavy for me to move to another wall.)