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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If right now someone said: Solar flare, unplug everything!, what could you do? What could the cashier at the supermarket do? What could a chirug do?

Early warning, turning off everything that can be turned off is a good ting, but too many things aren’t built with unplugging in mind, especially not remote unplugging while you’re at work.

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