solar flares

You may want to take a look at these two articles, which I think will give a lot of you a better understanding of the size of the problem soon to come to a theater near all of us. http://tinyurl.com/34fs9w9 http://tinyurl.com/2cjfpcy

Just wondering if anyone knows what you can do to protect yourself from electromagnetic pulse emissions? When the atomic bomb went off every battery within range went instantly dead. Was wondering what sort of barrier might protect against that, if there is one? And I'm not talking the atomic...