Laugh now and cry later seems to be how people take the solar flare thing. EMP coming from iran or even russia might be greater chance. Economic collapse is next. Communism was the #1 concern until Trump. Trump’s admin being sabotaged by the globalists is #1 now.
I bought a monochrome laser printer several years ago and printed about 2,000 pages of prepper info.
We just got on the grid after being off grid for 5 years. People in this area have only had grid for a couple of generations. No fuel for the chainsaws would be a killer. Cattle raising area so everyone would have beef for a while. I try to keep a lot of heirloom seeds on hand. We’d have to dig some root cellars real quick. I buy seed potatoes every year to grow and always buy more potatoes than we need during the rest of the year as I haven’t been trying to over winter due to the lack of root cellar.
My neighbor across the road (and down a big hill) has a spring that was mostly set up to sell bottled spring water. Not sure how many gpm but it creates a stream 3 foot wide by 1 foot deep running year round. I’ve got a 275 tank, four 55 gal drums and 50 or so 1 gallon jugs. Enough to share with the neighbors.
My food stores are a bit low so I need to work on those. We’ve got a pressure canner but I need to make a rocket stove to fit it and practice with it. I’ve got 100 lbs each of salt and sugar for curing.
If the hungry city hordes don’t come and kill us, we’ll make it. We’re 100 miles from a major city.
Great for you to prepare. Commendable. But I don’t think it is required for this scenario. I’m still trying to learn how charged particles from solar flares can induce voltage in insulated wires. They can’t. However, as I’ve seen during a 2004 solar flare, if there is enough exposed wire on a circuit a significant charge can build up and over-volt the line. This is why solid state circuit breakers are so important to use. UPSs have them built in. All important/expensive equipment should be run off a UPS if for no other reason than the built in line conditioning and automated breaker.
Important Safety tip: To avoid a house fire unplug all power strips when you hear of a solar storm event. Power strips are the service point of connected devices and will be an aggregated point of discharge for any induced over-voltage up to the line’s circuit breaker’s rating. I.e., during over voltage they will pop all their internal trip wires and may catch fire. This is what I witnessed during the 2004 solar storm. The sockets with devices plugged in caught fire as there was an open circuit to discharge the induced voltage which was obviously beyond the rating or capacity of the power strip.