[cogitator]

"Nothing" is not always what happens.

"A 1994 solar storm caused major malfunctions to two communications satellites, disrupting newspaper, network television and nationwide radio service throughout Canada. Other storms have affected systems ranging from cell phone service and TV signals to GPS systems and electrical power grids. In March 1989, a solar storm much less intense than the perfect space storm of 1859 caused the Hydro-Quebec (Canada) power grid to go down for over nine hours, and the resulting damages and loss in revenue were estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars."

[discostu]

We owe a tarring and a feathering to the makers of Perfect Storm for putting that idiotic phrase in the general lexicon. "Perfect space storm" puh-lease.

So far doesn't look like this storm has done anything.

[_Jim]

cell phone service

THIS one's pretty much urban myth - nothing space-based is used in systems here ...

[buffyt]

I was just wondering if they might cause power grids to go down. I am in Okla for a 34 years - high school reunion.... if the power goes out here, no one will notice, after a few drinks.

[_Jim]

"A 1994 solar storm caused ...

BTW, in 1994 I was with a cellular carrier that comprised a service area of 11 counties (about half a dozen more in outlying RSAs we had authority over) - at about 33/34 degrees N latitude ... we didn't see a thing down here at that time on our system (the system functioned normally - not like when we lost a 'switch' which took out the east part of system due to a software error!) ...