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Use your favorite search engine for "Carrington Event" or something similar and you'll find a ton of info. Here's one that is short and sweet regarding things similar to the 1859 event and what might happen if it were to reoccur.
Could Another Carrington Event Destroy Our Economy?
You'll get a magnified effect from a massive Coronal Mass Ejection that will be greater than an EMP (same effects) so any vehicle that will stop working from an EMP will also go down in a CME event. If you lose power then there won't be anything to run pumps to get fuel (gas or diesel) so any...
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My understanding is it doesn't matter day/night as a CME will travel the magnetosphere (pole to pole). The Carrington Event in the 1850's set telegraph poles on fire and if we had another occurance like that it would likely fry just about every transformer around so no power. Without...
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