[Molly Pitcher]

This should be interesting as to effects. For one thing, the so-called Northern Lights may become prominent. That's what happened 2 (?) years ago in the fall, and the displays were spectacular across much of the country.

[snopercod]

[Phsstpok]

That's what happened 2 (?) years ago in the fall, and the displays were spectacular across much of the country.

If it's the same event I remember, I found out about it on a thread here on FR. In an unrelated thread someone started posting messages about spotting the aurora in the North East, maybe New York or New Jersey. At first I thought they were tin foil hat types talking about the supposed spy plane named aurora. A few more folks chimed in from other locations and I finally realized it was the northern lights they were talking about. Then the reports started coming from closer and closer to where we live in Memphis. When someone in the Missouri boot heel, just 80 or so miles north, said they saw it I ran outside. Sure enough, the northern sky was glowing red and green and slowly shifting. It was as if there was a big stadium a mile or two away with bright red and green floodlights, just out of view.

FR is the best place on the net for real time events, of all types.

[New Horizon]

This should be interesting as to effects. For one thing, the so-called Northern Lights may become prominent. That's what happened 2 (?) years ago in the fall, and the displays were spectacular across much of the country.

That was last fall. Here in Michigan it was absolutely spectacular...colors were streaming towards me as I looked up. I called my "city-friends" and they could see a little of it, but I got the whole show. Wow!

P.S. - Is FreeRepublic really, really slow today?

[rwfromkansas]

That's the only thing that almost always comes from these storms.

I have never lost power, never lost tv, never lost my cell phone, despite multiple flares coming our way in the past couple years.