"Betcha he's Klan."

"I beleive that if a newer vehicle was parked in lets say a metal pole barn, of which there would be many in a rural area, it may still work. Wouldn't the metal in the barn work as a Faraday cage and deflect the EMP?"

"people want real, the town and people are looking too" nothing has changed". where is the unlimited supply of booze coming from?"

"some good points made here in replies to the original comment, 21+ years in the military I know our HUMVEE's were hardened against some EMP attack as are our aircraft etc. And the post by anonymous about "EMP proximity" is correct. I recently watched a Discovery Weapons Tech episode at White Sands on testing of a EMP device in which a car was driven under the device as it went off. It died but the producers said later they were able to start the car after changing the ignition module. Anything not directly connected to the power grid would also survive destruction. Old style diesle engines would not be affected by EMP either. As far as who or what caused the EMP? My theory is that our own goernment did it in a last ditch effort at preventing a second wave attack, and to put the general populace and any enymies on our soil or invading agencies who would capitalize on our misery would be diminished in power.
And I agree with the "Soap Opera" sub-plot comment but it is important to the producers and sponsers to keep woman interested in watching the show after all woman by product and that is how TV makes its money."

"You people need to do some research on EMP. It would not cause all things computer to fail.
EMP burns things up by building a charge on long cable runs, i.e. the power grid. Cars are not connected to the grid and the electronics are fairly well protected by the steel body of the vehical. A EMP pulse is measured in microvolts and unless the car was extremely close to the blast it would not burn up all the electronics. Your car might stall out while the pulse passed by, but more than likely it would start up, same thing with a PC, it might be disrupted and reboot and you might lose data you were working on.
Street lights would probably burn out from the increased load from the grid, I don't think the bulbs are surge protected.

There are some products the police have been testing that can travel under a car and cause a massive EMP UNDER the car which will cause it to die, allowing them to apprehend vehicals in a chase. This EMP is created a few feet from the electronics of the car and is much more powerful than a EMP from hundres or thousands of miles away would be.

The part in Jericho where the wrist watches stopped is also total bull...."