It's Christmas Day!

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And the wife looks at you and says, "Its below zero out there, we have to walk three days and I have to carry this 2 year old the entire way. I don't think so!"

Remember Jonas took your car and all comms away from you.

You are in England with no weapons, no knowledge of the situation between you and home, a major urban area to traverse, and the prospect that the lights will probably come back on within a short time.

I have seen power out situations that extended for 10 days in the present "normal times". Going into panic mode in the first 24 hours is absurd, even if the comms are down.



As for the real situation with the vehicles? You will probably be able to crank them up and drive home. That is what NASA does when coronal mass ejections blast the equipment orbiting the Earth outside the protection of the atmosphere.

They turn them off, then turn them back on when the EMP event is over. Electronics far more delicate than those in a vehicle, and they work just fine.

The comms will probably be back up before daylight as the crews crank up the mobile transmitting vans that were not in use during the surge. Nashville TN once lost a TV station to a tornado and the affiliate transmitted for nearly a year out of a transit van with a mast antenna. They had restored operational capabilities out of that van, within a few hours.