[crazydad]

If an EMP hits nothing electrical will ever work again.

[Vermont Lt]

They don’t have the mechanism for anything like that. Sure, could attack the physical structure, but the infrastructure—the stuff we use, would not be wrecked. It would be like a bad blizzard. But not an earth changer.

[krogers58]

If an EMP hits nothing electrical will ever work again.

Not true. If you shield electrical equipment, properly, it can be brought online as soon as the EMP pulse is over. This can be done in many ways, but the simplest is a metal box that is grounded, the Faraday cage, so to speak. A radio, and any other emergency electronics you can think of (a generator if you could afford to set one aside), would work, but the critical part is that it must be shielded and grounded properly. Ham radio rig, with some way to produce power for it, would also be a nice set aside.

[Justa]

Transistorized stuff will still work. Most cars before 1980 will work. Shielded electronics will still work. Bear in mind many military combat vehicles’ electronic systems are EMP shielded.

An astute prepper would put acquire spares of all critical electronic devices such as auto ECM, elec. water pump, backup laptop, shortwave radios, GPS, two-way radio sets, solar batter recharger, etc. and put them in a waterproof container and bury it under 5 feet of earth.