eli5 If solar flares basically EMP electrical infrastructure, why can’t we turn it off before it hits?

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Like how you can fry your electronics if they’re plugged in when the power comes back on from an outage, why can’t we “unplug” everything so to speak?

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So I actually took a class on this. Having devices unplugged is going to protect them the most. Anything connected to a mains that doesn’t have grid- level interrupts is going to fry.

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