I'm probably wrong but from what I've read CME's wont hurt us, but electrical things won't be much good, so maybe make yourself a Faraday cage and chuck your iPod etc in that.
I also read that they can only predict these up to 1 hour in advance, so I don't think it is CME's these people are hiding from.
I remember a couple of months ago a radio station having a tape of someone from England buying a house somewhere in USA and telling people to get out of the UK,
http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=3786 so I'm not going to lose much sleep over this one, but I think I may go on holiday to Spain at the end of August just in case