ALERT! Time to Break Out the Foil Hats!

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I've been up wrapping gifts for myself, in aluminum foil, for the upcoming event.

Solar storms are imminent. We can expect to get hit on 5/10 in the evening; and they will last through the weekend. The producer of this video predicts a 10% chance of a killshot; but less severe effects are almost a certainty.



I'm wrapping my SW radio, my inverter, a LED flashlight. and some solar equipment. I already have some very large lead acid batteries on full charge.
 
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P.S. Rats! I almost forgot! I need to wrap a laptop with all of my homestead, prepper, and survival information on it. I had plans to buy more foil this week; but I didn't get to it. I should probably jump on that tomorrow.
 
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HARK! said:
P.S. Rats! I almost forgot! I need to wrap a laptop with all of my homestead, prepper, and survival information on it. I had plans to buy more foil this week; but I didn't get to it. I should probably jump on that tomorrow.
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Plain old aluminum foil does a moderate to poor job as a Faraday Cage. Better the heavy duty thicker stuff. Also it really matters how the corners are folded. All this was tested by putting a cell phone inside various commercially available Faraday Cages and home made ones with aluminum foil.

I unplugged my computers and the network for a day but didn't bag anything up. Thought about it though. I have a galvanized steel box with a tight fitting steel lid. A bit of aluminum foil around the edge and I'm probably good. But to be sure I can put a phone inside it and try to call it.
 
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I ended up running out and buying a 55 gallon steel drum; so I had the foil and the drum for protection.

Turns out that the solar storms didn't seem to do any damage in my area anyway. I didn't hear any complaints; but at least now I'm better prepared; and I'm leaving some items in the drum, so that I'm always prepared for a solar storm, or an EMP.
 
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There will some day be a direct and powerful solar flare that does damage. And it seems we are more at risk now for an EMP than in decades.
 
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