If the grid is going down one would likely be expecting a CME or something from the heavens that would impact orbiting satillites.
I found this message very interesting as CMEs have happened in the past and in fact Canada got the last hit that I'm aware of and ended up a bit of a mess in the impacted area. A solar flare in 1989 blacked out all of Quebec, Canada. Then there was the Solar Magnetic Cloud (SMC)/Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event of January1997 triggered ... Svalbard and in the polar cap region over Eureka, Canada. So it would seem that it is the northern hemispheres that tend to have been targeted when these past two events occurred.
This information, along with some intuitional hits is why our research team are now brainstorming on how to prepare some very cheap underground structures as a means to protect oneself from these type of events. As Jim Marrs says, "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst." Which is exactly what we are doing in our own small way.
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Here is one thread where we are brainstorming underground shelters.. we have a lot more info on this but it isn't posted yet.
http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=8281