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Solar storm 2024: What should you do to prepare?
The Hill ^ | 05/09/2024 | ALIX MARTICHOUX

Posted on 05/10/2024 6:35:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

NEXSTAR) โ€“ Itโ€™s been almost 20 years since weโ€™ve seen a geomagnetic storm as strong as the one heading our way this weekend. Power operators and other groups that maintain critical infrastructure are preparing for what might happen when the coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, hit Earth. But is there anything you should be doing?

A G4-level solar storm, such as the one expected to hit as soon as Friday evening, can cause issues with the power grid, radio communications and the accuracy of GPS.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2024; aurora; prepare; solar; solarstorm; storm
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did civilization collapse? I kinda missed it.


41 posted on 05/10/2024 7:59:50 PM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m getting the family under silver blankets underneath our spaceship. We’ll drink cold water from metal thermoses when it is over in a few minutes.


42 posted on 05/10/2024 8:03:35 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Women, minorities, LGBQT hardest hit.


43 posted on 05/10/2024 8:13:34 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: scott7278

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44 posted on 05/10/2024 8:13:55 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN ๐Ÿ’ŽGOING Gfld irstETS TOUGH KEEP GOING๐Ÿ’Ž IfIT DOESNT KiI re dne oL yOU I wil MAKE YOU STRONGER๐Ÿ’Ž)
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To: gitmo

I’m building a crystal lens to channel all that energy into my brain

Watch out...


45 posted on 05/10/2024 8:15:20 PM PDT by baclava
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To: ChicagoConservative27
a geomagnetic storm as strong as the one heading our way this weekend.

-PJ

46 posted on 05/10/2024 8:20:01 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Strip the grocery store shelves bare before your neighbors can get there to do their normal shopping.


47 posted on 05/10/2024 8:23:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: TigersEye

Buy a few pallets of toilet paper. Fight in the isles at Walmart if necessary.


48 posted on 05/10/2024 8:35:35 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Clay Moore

The ‘Isles of Walmart’ sounds like a low-cost vacation spot...


49 posted on 05/10/2024 8:39:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
From my house tonight:


50 posted on 05/10/2024 8:42:22 PM PDT by CtBigPat (There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suits. )
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To: Clay Moore

Hoo ah! Onward Walmart soldiers!!!

That last bag of charcoal is mine!


51 posted on 05/10/2024 8:45:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Put cyanide capsules in everyones applesauce cups. Just waiting for Jesus pangalactic destroyer to get close enough now....


52 posted on 05/10/2024 8:47:56 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Listening ๐ŸŽถ to Sunspot-Bob Segar.


53 posted on 05/10/2024 8:50:35 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: CtBigPat

That’s lovely.


54 posted on 05/10/2024 8:51:32 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: CtBigPat

Iโ€™m glad someone got to see something! We went outside (live in the country) and couldnโ€™t see a thing. Must be cloudy here. No stars either. Thank you for sharing! Thatโ€™s beautiful!


55 posted on 05/10/2024 8:56:24 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Take lots of pictures


56 posted on 05/10/2024 9:03:43 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Don't think I need any supplies.
I still have lots of stuff left over from the ECLIPSE...
57 posted on 05/10/2024 9:46:20 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: KarlInOhio

I also managed to miss “than” in my response. Was supposed to read “Roger that. Better safe than sorry. 73”


58 posted on 05/10/2024 9:47:48 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any advice on how to record it on camera?


59 posted on 05/10/2024 11:04:48 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, it’s early Saturday morning, and we’re still here .
Zip, nada, nothing. I’m so disappointed.


60 posted on 05/11/2024 2:07:54 AM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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