Protect yourself and your property from EMP:

1) Purchase several rolls of heavy Duty Aluminum Foil,
2) fashion a beanie for your cranium of at least three layers.
3) Create aluminum shields for the portions of all electronic appliances; place them with tape or rubber bands on the faces NEAREST to the SKY.
4) glue or tape triple-thick layers of foil to the bonnet of your autocar, taking care to protect the micro-chip components. Don’t be stingy with the foil.
5) If you are aesthetically-minded, you might consider applying an attractive coat of spray paint to match or coordinate to the existing paint pattern.

6) Do not head for the hills; that places you in a position that is both nearer to any EMP detonation AND above a large fraction of the protective atmosphere. You will be in additional danger from stochastic effects of ionizing radiation from daughter particles of cosmic ray/atmospheric molecule collisions. Doing so will additionally expose your retinas to six percent greater amounts of ultraviolet radiation for each 1000 feet you rise above your customary altitude of repose. Makes you go blind sooner, and also promotes melanoma and degradation of subcutaneous connective tissue, leading to premature wrinklediness.

Seriously, our satellite communications systems – upon which we depend for intercontinental phone, radio, TV, AND those little chips that tell the government where you is at every moment of the live-long day – are darned sensitive even to VISIBLE LIGHT, much less the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Maybe there are hidden blessings.