Rocks under 1-95 present serious threat to power grid between Richmond and Portland
Basically, the rock under the surface will reflect back an EMP generated above it- either natural such as a solar flare; or man-made such as a high altitude nuclear attack on the US.
Cool except for the fact that I am almost on top if that line....
A few of months without electricity would not be good.Here’s something you probably didn’t know you needed to worry about: There’s a layer of 300 million-year-old rock under Interstate 95 that’s capable of killing the lights from Washington to Boston and beyond the next time the sun erupts in all its fury.
Sound far-fetched? Perhaps. But not to scientists. A solar storm is now viewed as enough of a risk in fact that grid operators across North America are working on plans to respond to just such a disturbance. And a draft of a soon-to-be-published U.S. Geological Survey report pinpoints the Eastern Seaboard as one of the areas most in danger.