[Gritty]

This should be an interesting discussion. Our government has been ignoring the blaring klaxons on this subject.

We would do well to take a few billions of wasted EBT monies and put it into EMP protection for our grids. It might be good insurance to prevent most of us from starving to death in case of such an event.

[meatloaf]

There was a discussion of a Carrington event on another board. There was a government study a few years back that cited the danger to the large transformers at power plants. The estimated loss is over 300 of the transformers. One factory in Muncie, Indiana used to build them. Yesterday I found on the internet that the equipment was sold off and the building is now used to manufacture railroad locos. AFAIK, we no longer build large transformers in this country. That complicates a recovery tremendously now that those transformers are built overseas. The study says that the power in some areas may not be restored for a time period ranging from months to years.