Don’t worry, our sensors will detect it coming.
(just before being zapped along with everything else in the West)
Cover all your vehicles with a lead blanket. Quick!
I was watching some show about a solar flare disaster and had to look up how long it would take it to reach the earth. (The show had a few days iirc to prepare for it.)
It would take about 8 minutes to hit the earth. Probably as long as I’ve been reading and commenting on this thread.
I can just hear my wife. “You could have been wrapping the house up with foil, but instead you were wasting time on Free Republic!”