Littlesister – I hope the government will actually start doing something practical now to harden our electrical grid but I’m worried it will just be “all talk and no action” as it has been since the bi-partisan EMP Commission was first set-up in about 2001 by a Republican-controlled Congress and then was re-authorized in 2006 by a Democratic-controlled Congress. That Commission published a report back in 2008, and another in 2014, and a few more in 2017, recommending changes to harden the grid, etc., but, to the best of my knowledge, none of the Congresses during that time period (regardless of which party was in control) have voted any funding to actually get those changes made. From what I’ve read recently, it seems that, for some reason, the DOD stalled the release of some of those EMP Commission reports, and some major power companies tried to discourage people from taking the EMP threat seriously because the folks running those companies know how very expensive it will be for them to harden their infrastructure against EMPs. I’d love to think that will all change now but I’ll believe it when I see it <sigh>.
