Posted on 04/20/2009 11:23:02 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The catastrophe, when it comes, will be beautiful at first. It is a balmy evening in late September 2012. Ever since the sun set, the dimming skies over London have been alive with fire.
Pillars of incandescent green writhe like gigantic serpents across the skies.
Sheets of orange race across the horizon during the most spectacular display of the aurora borealis seen in southern England for 153 years.
And then, 90 seconds later, the lights start to go out. Not the lights in the sky - they will dazzle until dawn - but the lights on the ground.
Within an hour, large parts of Britain are without power.
By midnight, every mobile network is down and the internet is dying. Television - terrestrial and satellite - blinks off the air.
Radio is reduced to a burst of static.
By noon the following day, it is clear something terrible has happened and the civilised world has plunged into chaos.
A year later, Britain, most of Europe plus North America is in the grip of the deepest economic catastrophe in history.
By the end of 2013, 100,000 Europeans have died of starvation.
The dead go unburied, the sick untreated.
It will take two decades or more for the first green shoots of recovery to appear - recovery from the first solar superstorm in modern history.
This catastrophe is not some academic one-in-a-million chance scenario.
It is a very real threat which, according to a report in the latest issue of New Scientist, remains one of the most potent, yet least recognised, threats to the future of human civilisation.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
LOL.
This has more to do with knocking out electrical transformers than anything else, a solar storm did this in Quebec Canada, now before everyone starts cracking French jokes and Canada jokes you need to realize BC Hydro, Hydro One and Hydro Quebec send a lot of electrical power down into the US...
If you lose that much power the US systems will be inadequate to run on its own.
anything INSIDE a metal container will feel 0 charge
I dont think grounding has anything to do with inside the container, does it?
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I got a case of Sam Adams stashed too!
I got a case of Sam Adams stashed too!
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AM radio, cross a river via a girded bridge and signal is lost.
FM radio, cross a river via a girded bridge and the signal isn't lost.
It's all reference baby! ; )
AM = earth ground reference.
FM = equipment reference.
It's all relative...
Address please. : - D
By the end of 2013, 100,000 Europeans have died of starvation. The dead go unburied, the sick untreated....the nurses, doctors, and union of French gravediggers all go on strike for shorter hours and more pay. ;')
LOL, nicely put.
September? But the gloom and doom merchants on History Channel have already revealed to us that it will be in December, I thought... that we were using the predictions of Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar to calculate this momentous event!
I'm sorry, I'm a simple man, and I just can't parse this. Which false prophet are we supposed to be listening to?
I'm confused. I survived Y2k, the early departure of Marshall Hepplewhite's gang, and I'm still here.
Now I know how those Millerites must have felt...
SURGE PROTECTORS
I got a case of Sam Adams stashed too!If you have guns and ammo no 'stashing' is necessary - just take what you want or need from the limp wristed Nancy boy libs in big cities.
While they're dialing a non existent 9-1-1 and crying for gubmint help, you'll have all their beer -- and their women too (1)
(1) That is, if they shave :-)
OMG 2012 ... The Mayans were right!
OK, panic time over. I just read the second page of this alarm report. The article states we COULD have a burst like this whenever we have a solar maximum, and potentially most likely at the spring or fall equinox because of the angle of direction. There was a big one almost 150 years ago, and a small one in the recent past in Canada. At any rate, the Mormons have the right idea—one year supply of food. I have about 3 months, and am not very worried. Nevertheless, this potential threat does deserve thought and high level international planning.
Question: How would this affect people who are off the grid with solar or wind and batteries? How about people connected to the grid with net metering?
Do you think that tinfoiling the entire external surface of my house would work? I could only start doing it about a week before the big event because thats about how long it would take my condo association to send me a letter to stop. Then the following week they would fine me but that would be ok since by then they would be kicking themselves for not doing the same.......
FWIW, December 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar...........Coincidence? I don't think so.
Wow, you and I are on the same wavelength! We're going to score big while the rest of the world laughs at my tinfoil covered house...........
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