What can your everyday civilian do to protect themselves against the possibility of an EMP attack?

All this talk about Norway banning wireless devices and cfl/halogen bulbs and the comment by someone about Russia possibly planning to invade Norway soon and that perhaps the queen is doing this to save her country has made me think about these things for the first time in any depth.  I am not a doomsayer but planning ahead for a few things never hurt anybody, especially when these preparations are free or cheap!  Having extra food and water should be a no-brainer.  No fear, just precaution. 

I don’t necessarily agree with all said on this survival site, as I think they have it all wrong about who the bad guys are, but they have some amazing articles.  These writers know their stuff.

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James Roberts, author

What can your everyday civilian do to protect themselves against the possibility of an EMP attack?

1. Have a lot of battery operated devices on hand and the batteries to use them. Further, these appliances should have cords and antennas 30 inches or less in length. The reason for this is simple: Metal pulls in EMP and makes it more dangerous. Thus, less metal is good. Further, keep these appliances away from metal.

2. Harden your equipment (another way of saying, protect it from EMP). Some considerations include the use of tree formation circuits (not standard loop formations), induction shielding around components, self-contained battery packs, loop antennas, and Zener diodes. In addition, grounding wires for each separate instrument into a system could help as well.

3. A new device called the Ovonic Threshold Device (Energy Conversion Devices of Troy, MI) is a solid state switch that opens a path to ground when a massive surge of EMP is encountered by a circuit. This would help in a big way.

4. Use a Faraday Box to store equipment in. Makeshift Faraday boxes can be made from metal filing cabinets, ammunition containers, and cake boxes. That said, the device you are protecting must not touch the metal container (use insulation: paper, cardboard, whatever). Further, there can be no holes. Last, if the box seems less than adequate, you may wrap it in aluminum foil for more protection.

5. Cars are already a metal box. Thus, some of them would survive,  though it’s reported most vehicles on the road since the mid 1960s would likely be effected. That said, gas would be a problem. So have a lot of that and food on hand (remember that refrigerators and water sanitizing devices would go out).

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