If we get another in succession it could be bad. It seems to have traveled fast.
Yah, this is what it sayes.
“Aviators, mariners, and ham radio operators on the daylit side of Earth may have noticed strange propagation effects at frequencies below 30 MHz.
Sunspot AR2887 may not be finished yet. It has already produced two M-class flares and an X-flare today. The active region is directly facing Earth, so any additional eruptions should be geoeffective. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text.”
Someday we will get a bad one or series of them. I suspect that the grid has a good deal more protection than the telegraph lines during the Carrington event, but if all or most IC boards are working with 3.5v it could be a problem.
(Time to buy and move into an Airstream trailer!)