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That’s what I want to know but everybody just talks about how pretty it is. I want to know if it was dangerous to our electronics, and if not then how close it came to being dangerous, you know, small things like that.


If it was dangerous, we would know by now. As it is, we are still able to use the internet. Major outages would be all over the news.


The current storm hit G5 (https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-observed), it’s officially “off the charts” if it gets any stronger.

By the time you cannot use Internet, it’s too late—and it won’t be all over the news because guess how we make/broadcast/receive them. Worst case you won’t even get a radio transmission through.




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