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?
In: Planetary Science
In the case of a direct hit from a massive solar flare the length of the wires plays a huge role.
You could probably unplug and turn off home electronic devices and they would be fine.
We can and do turn off entire power grids to try and protect them.
But the power grid, phone lines and other cables of great length could still suffer catastrophic overloads causing thousands of fires simultaneously if we were hit by a strong enough solar flare emp.
Assuming we managed to put out all the fires we still would not have the parts nor manpower necessary to repair the entire electrical grid and it would be a long and frustrating road to recovery.
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