If there is an event from the sun, comparable to what has happened historically in North America, there is NO HARM to human beings from the event itself. All that is going to happen from the “event” is a bunch of “ooohs” and “aaahs” from the people here in the USA, admiring the lights in the sky. THAT’s IT!
The PROBLEM comes into play from the collapse of the infrastructure, itself. We’re not talking about burning buildings or exploding buildings from that event. NOTHING like that will happen because of this “sun-event”.
What will happen is that there simply won’t be any electricity. You’ve been in a power outage before. Nothing big happens! You do all right, and you wait, and the power comes back on.
We’ve even waited for a WEEK with no power and in the middle of the winter and absolutely freezing weather. We STILL DID OKAY!
The problem happens when there no power for an extended period of time and over the entire country - not just a limited region. And when that power outage continues for a year — THEN — you’ll find about 90% of the population of the USA dying off. That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about.
In addition, you’ll find that places like Pakistan doing okay. Saudi Arabia won’t have a problem. Yemen will do just as well as it’s doing right now. And you’ll find many other country doing okay - except for the “vacuum” created by the USA being missing.
We don’t have to be talking about the Tribulation of the Bible, you see.
Most populations would be affected by that event, either directly or indirectly via trade and food and other necessities supplied from those populations directly affected. I’m not sure what we’re arguing about - the article says Gingrich sees this as an “apocalyptic” event. The “apocalypse” is what the “tribulation” is all about.