I believe that the Carrington Event disruption — including terrestrial fires — occurred as a result of the high-energy particles that arrive with 20 minutes of the flare/CME, not the lower energy stuff that arrives days later, like tonight. So any great drama would have happened already but it didn’t. Enjoy the Aurora.
During the Carrington Event, telegraphers were getting shocked and even though they turned the machines off the solar energy was still giving them power. Several telegraphers in Boston and Maine communicated with each other for several hours wth the machines turned off.