Got my sunglasses and towel ready for the natural event....
and related, interesting.. was looking for a 1962 hotel advertisement, rooftop party! oh joy
Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (900 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link (the detonation time was nine seconds after 11 p.m. in Hawaii)... From:
It also kinda' whacked the Telstar! not good my friends, ...not good!