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Re:Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (2014) by marcosdumay on Sunday April 09, 2017 @05:45PM (#14074519)
About #2, solar storms are world-wide.
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Re:Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (2014) by M_Grey on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:39PM (#14074714)
The upside at least there, is that there is some warning; you could stick everything you care about into a Faraday cage. Power lines... not so much.
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Re:Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (2014) by marcosdumay on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:09PM (#14082577)
No need. Just unplug them from the power lines and you are good.
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