What I wonder is how man fires would break out. During the Carrington Event a number of Telegrapher offices caught fire. Now every house and building is wired to the grid.
“What I wonder is how man fires would break out. During the Carrington Event a number of Telegrapher offices caught fire. Now every house and building is wired to the grid.”
Those were different times then - and different systems (telegraph offices) Today there would not be so many in buildings from such a solar storm. There are multiple nested protection systems from grid to any building that prevent it. However, there are documented cases during a geomagnetic storm peak (far less severe than a Carrington event) of a major transformer going from normal operations to flaming wreckage in 90 seconds in Quebec.