[russell]

I would expect a Carrington sized event to fry all the satellites in orbit. The damage from no GPS for several years would probably be in the hundreds of billions. There is a good chance that anything attached to an antenna or power lines would also be fried. I doubt if surge protectors would do any good. Personally I would pack my computers in metal boxes, unplug all my appliances and maybe even turn off my house at the entrance box. Then I would go outside and watch the display.

The saving grace is that we would have several days warning.

[chakalakasp]

The bummer is that, depending where you live, there is a good chance that even if you preserved your electronics, you wouldn't have any mains current to run them for a long, long time. I would be more worried about rushing to Walmart and stocking up on canned goods and bottled water before anyone else figured out what was about to happen.

[kamaal]

Very correct.I think in case of a mass electricity failure across the world. Without water supply, fuel and other energy resources to transport food, medicine and other essential supplies.

More than protecting your electronic gear, the struggle is likely to be for food and other emergency resources.

I am sure there will mass riots and mafia scale entities controlling resources critical to survival. Besides 2/3rd will be dead in quick time anyway. Nobody has every survived without water or food.