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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
While electronics may survive a single blast with "accidental" shielding, the problem is many items would have been subjected to dozens, even hundreds of EMP bursts. By surviving the first EMP burst, the owners may have been lulled into a false sense of security and fail to properly prepare for following bursts.
So yes, it's probable some survived due to being shielded, or just plain blind luck, but it would seem much of the necessary infrastructure will take a while to rebuild. In the meantime, I'm with James - elements still exist, but service will be patchy at best and subject to frequent outages for days, weeks, even months at a time.
...at least until somebody noticed they can't find their favourite porn sites anymore and the Nigerians can't find any gullible idiots to scam.  |
One thing to remember is that emp from a nuclear weapon is not as effective the further you get away from it, so anything that is within the effect of dozens let allone hundreds hundreds of blasts has most likely be contaminated
or destroyed.
A nuclear Blast in Omaha may or may not effect computers in Lincoln (50 miles away) depending on size of blast and if the computer in question is protected by surge protector. It definitely will not effect on in Grand island. Now multiple upper stratosphere bursts will cover a large area, those this will mess the power grid the worst, and any unprotected electronic device will be interrupted or messed up at least temporarily, vehicles may or may not still be operable depending on type of fuel system. (electronic fuel injection would most likely be out of service, while old carburetor systems will still work)