It seems to me that it would be easy to include a few preps into our everyday lives that would make survival during a Coronal Mass Ejection or EMP more probable. The 1st is figure out some additional water sources (w/filters). 2nd) work some extra food into your rotation, or add freeze dryed food to storage if you have the space and the money.
My wife and I have gone 2 steps further - far down that rabbit hole. We have most preps anyone would think of, including too many firearms of course, but then we built a 2nd structure that was designed and engineered to survive the worst earthquake California would ever see as a second structure so that we would have an emergency location. The new one is under 500 sq feet and it’s rented out on a month to month basis for $1300 a month. We leave it empty on occasion as the unit shares our backyard. We have an antiquated house, if an earthquake, fire or windstorm took the old one out, we’d crowd into the little one in an emergency if it was rented out at the time and they could live rent free and we’d share our extensive preps with them.
2nd) We bought a 2nd remote location a 4-5 day walk away (if cars are not operational) with few people around where game is plentiful and it’s a stunning locale. It’s a great vacation spot as is, it’s appreciated in value $X3 what we paid for it so it wasn’t a financial drag. We’ll rent it to friends and family on occasion and we often do weekends there to relax and occasionally pick and pluck strange wild local food for dinners that others do not even know is edible. Sometimes we’ll feed it to friends so they try and guess what they are eating. I figure the deer that literally bed down next to us won’t be there 15 min before you need to kill one of them, but the little strange stuff will be. We would likely have to soon abandon the city we live in if the lights go out due to an EMP or CME, there is no way the city location could carry the population.
Should nothing bad arise (cross your fingers and knock on wood), we’ve got a great vacation spot and extra income from the 2nd tiny home. To anyone who thinks that they will not do a damned thing now and simply crowd in with us when the crisis comes, that won’t happen. I would refer you to the classic “Ant and the Grasshopper” Disney film, and recall that we’re armed. I don’t understand why folks don’t choose to take a few simple steps to being prepared so that our society can become more resilient in a crisis. Everyone is making choices. Yours are yours and ours are ours. We can all enjoy our flashlights until that unhappy event occurs, and should that horror show arrive, as unlikely as it seems to some: some of us will have our flashlights to enjoy afterwards as well.
Best to all