Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided

Washington Examiner ^ | 7/31/13 | PAUL BEDARD

[Kartographer]

Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.

"The world escaped an EMP catastrophe," said Henry Cooper, who lead strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense.

"There had been a near-miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us," said Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission from 2001-2008. He was referring to the 1859 EMP named after astronomer Richard Carrington that melted telegraph lines in Europe and North America.

[Kartographer]

“No phone, no lights, no motor car. Not a single luxury…”

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

Article on the Carrington Event

A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event

http://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event

[InvisibleChurch]

I wonder if NASA invented thunderstorms to cover up the sound of space battles?

[BenLurkin]

TEOTWAWKI ping

[Kartographer]

Smok’n your lunch I see.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[SatinDoll]

Such an event would be dramatic for regular folks.

Those of us who have been trending our use of things like electricity wouldn’t be quite so severely affected.

BUT - I think I’ll speed up my prepping anyway. Still some things to arrange.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav

[InvisibleChurch]

You’re avoiding the answer.

[InvisibleChurch]

perhaps i deserve that

[AppyPappy]

Yeah.....sure.

[miliantnutcase]

In scale comparison with the rest of the solar system. We missed it by an ass hair...

[Kartographer]

I doubt it.

Now do you know what a Carrington Event is? and the damage that such an event would cause?

[ZX12R]

Pics, or it didn’t happen.

[LiberConservative]

Infuriating our government focuses on “phony” problems while ignoring real ones. Our grid is decrepit and needs a major overhaul.

[Old Sarge]

Last week, The Bride and I endured a total brake failure on her SUV, and The Bride got a rental vehicle while the repairs were being done.

She was driving a 2013 Dodge Journey. They call it a “crossover SUV”, but we both agreed it was a soccer-mom-mobile.

The car had touchpad ignition, keyless entry, and every system in the vehicle was electronic. The Bride’s first comment was, “IN AN EMP EVENT THIS CAR WOULD DIE!”

[cripplecreek]

the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.

I wonder how many miles that translates into.

[DuncanWaring]

I’m told thunderstorms predate NASA.

[txhurl]

Are this odds of this happening again in the near future?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

This book is an engrossing read. It's creates a scary scenario about the aftermath of an EMP attack in just the USA. Check out the website here:

http://www.onesecondafter.com/