ALERT! Time to Break Out the Foil Hats!

[HARK!]

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.

 

[HARK!]

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.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Here's your solar storms in pictures:

 

[FreeinChrist]

The Northern lights were beautiful!

 

[chevyontheriver]

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.

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.

 

[HARK!]

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.

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.

 

[chevyontheriver]

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.

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.