With a solar flare, aka CME, you’ll have warnings and lead time.
It’s easy to prep a vehicle to survive a solar flare (unlike a nuke EMP) because the ‘pulses’ are quite different.
With foreknowledge of a CME, do the following:
1. Have your tank full and have extra gas in cans if your living arrangements permit it.
2. If your vehicle is parked in a garage with an electric door or gate, open it now and leave it open, or park it outside. Garage doors can be quite difficult/heavy to open.
3. Disconnect both battery terminals.
4. Find your owners manual and the page with the fuse box layout. Print it out if it’s online only.
5. Open the fuse box and remove all the fuses. Put them in a bag in the center console with the fuse box layout page.
6. Leave the car unlocked - no issues with the fancy new locks nowadays.
7. For extra protection, likely not necessary, open your key fob and remove that little battery. Put both in a baggie and put it where you know you’ll remember it ;-)
8. If you have a mast antenna for the radio, wouldn’t hurt to unscrew it and put it on the front seat.
9. Lastly, for the fully anal retentitive, ground the vehicle to the dirt with a bare wire wrapped around a big nail or bolt, (put that in the dirt) and attach the other end to a bare metal part of the car. This will provide a path to dissipate induced current.
A big CME can last for hours or days. Don’t put it all back together for a while.
Tune in next week for how to protect portable radios 😉
Thank you for the instructions. Now I don’t need to get 80 boxes of Reynolds Wrap for the cars!
How about a car dealership with hundreds of new cars on the lot?