Solar storm 2024: What should you do to prepare?

The Hill ^ | 05/09/2024 | ALIX MARTICHOUX

[ronnie raygun]

All liberals woke and victimized groups, place a plastic bag over you head zip tie it at the neck and wait for further instructions

[jerod]

[Theophilus]

Gold!

[trebb]

My TV and internet have been working - so far, so good

[bert]

Alas, my wife just came to complain that we failed to go outside last night to see the Northern Lights

We will check it out tonite though if the skies are clear

[ChicagoConservative27]

Did you at least wear your mask?

[ChicagoConservative27]

Beautiful!

[left that other site]

It's Always Something!

[Tymesup]

Bud Light? Didn’t they used to sell beer?

[dforest]

Gee, must of happened when I was soundly sleeping. I opened my door this morning and all looked well.

Was I supposed to be terrified or something?

[dforest]

I miss that! And boy, is that the truth.

[left that other site]

Indeed.

[Vaduz]

No the aluminum foil wrap works just fine the dog doesn’t like it though.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Yes and you need to mask up now

[NWFree]

So when is this supposed to start up again? I’m not really noticing anything and feeling really let down 🤣

[powerset]

I just read this, and realized that this could explain why all our UPSes went crazy for a few minutes late Friday.

They all kept switching from line power to battery and back every second or so, for a total of 8 times. Each time the input voltage display showed a low number, like 84. (It was hard to be sure, as it changed so quickly.)

I had thought at the time that this behavior indicated major supply voltage fluctuations, but I didn't know the cause. I don't remember ever seeing this before.

Fortunately, there seem to have been no permanent bad effects.