[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.

[crazydad]

Thanks for the info. We have a big generator in the garage. So thanks for the heads up.