I hope it hits at night!!!!!!!
Hmmmmmm. I wonder...
A very good look at this is a book by my friend Bill Forstchen, called “One Second After,” about an EMP blast. It was #1 on the NYTimes for a while. Terrifying.
No transformers are vulnerable in Texas? How’s that possible?
It would be blamed on Global Warming.
Only four in California?
Should be simple enough to protect. Shouldn’t they?
The envirowacko DemoRATs would be raising hell and blaming it on Republicans for causing “global warming”. The Occupies would throw all the illegals out in the open and occupy all of the shady places.
Preppers’ PING!!
This is not meant for 99.999% of preppers:
If you don’t even know what the Carrington event of September, 1859 is then don’t show you ignorance by comment your expertise on the subject.
Signed The Professor
AZ unaffected. Woohoo.
Best to be armed when it happens.
Granted, a tad bit less electrical devices to play havoc with...
Toasted marshmallows for everyone!
What would happen? A whole lot of speculation would finally be actually tested and likely found to be a bunch of panic over nothing.
Oh, and some minor inconvenience for a day or two.
Or maybe something spectacular. Then again, the random chance of something spectacular happening at any moment from somewhere more than a light minute away is always there.
Solar storms at the Carrington level and stronger are not rare. When they hit the earth they affect the ground enough to leave evidence behind. Based on this we have been able to identify multiple similar events prior to the Carrington event, some of them even stronger.
The need to protect against this has been publicized over and over. There seems to be no scientific dispute about the threat, and that the consequences would be quite severe.
A small number of politicians have done some public hand wringing about it, but so far nothing has been done.
Ping me when the internet goes down ping
“It’s hard to overstate just how much this would uproot our lives. The lights would of course go out, as would the internet, and any device that draws current from the wall. In places with electronically-controlled municipal water supplies — like most modern cities — toilets and sewage treatment systems would stop working. Heating and air conditioning would fail. Perishable food and medication would be lost. ATMs would be useless. Gas pumps would go offline. And so forth.”
As often is the case, these articles confuse effects of a “High-Altitude Nuclear EMP” with those of a Solar/Geomagnetic Storm.
No electronics will fail as a result of a Solar Storm. If you have a backup generator at a facility (or at home) even if unprotected - it will work. A solid majority of power plants are likely to be able to provide some power at least regionally (islanded) immediately following a Solar Storm - re-integration of a unified grid may take a while depending on severity - so be ready for brownouts, rolling blackouts for a while.
This is a likely worst case scenario where 24 hours notice is given but no power transmission operators take any action to mitigate potential damage.
It’s not insignificant, but this isn’t “return to the stone-age” stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Is this map referring to the article talking about power companies rerouting around transformers during times of risk of CME? So for Florida and Texas there is enough capacity for rerouting and transformers wouldn’t have their copper core melted, assuming that the power companies rerouted in time? But other areas have too much demand to reroute and so some of their transmormers would be affected?
God bless Texas!
The modern aircraft I'm familiar with are distinctly non-dependent on GPS; they have plenty of alternate means of navigation.