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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Anything conductive can potentially have moving charges during the event.

If it were strong enough, everything from a metal roof to the circuits in your cellphone would have current “generated” in it.

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