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partly because they were telegraph wires and not power wires. most signal cables now are shielded. the voltages that would be induced would likely not fuse most electrical distribution wiring, that's not the vulnerability, it's the transformers, like nostr:npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl says, they are not radio-shielded, enough, at least. and i think even if that hole was patched, there is a threshold beyond which most of the last mile wires are too thin to cope with the temporary spike in current from the x-ray driven ionization combined with strong/fast solar wind and good coupling between the solar wind polarity and the earth's magnetic pole.

Personally I'm bored of Carrington Event and pole shift doomers. Most of the rest of the prepper community for that matter. There is no reliable or useful data for predicting how often those events happen and they are semi random not clockwork anyhow. Stop saying "We're due" when you have no way of knowing. Semi random + geological time scales means potentially thousands of years from now even if we are thousands of years overdue already. 2nd; you're fucked, I'm fucked, everybody is fucked. Stop fantasizing in your mind that you are the enlightened one who will be able to prep just right and survive. Any disaster of that scale has a massive amount of randomness in who makes it. 3rd; I love my guns and ammo as much as the next guy. One of my guns has actually saved my life so I'm not just saying that to sound cool. I still have needed a quality first aid kit far more often than a gun. I've been dehydrated to a point it affected my cognition more often than I've needed a gun. I've had hypothermia more often than I've needed a gun. I've been lost miles from where I thought I was more often than I've needed a gun. You need air, water, shelter, food in that order then maybe a gun will be useful. More likely in a disaster scenario a proper FUCK first aid kit long before a gun. Every natural disaster shows over and over and over that survivors come together after a catastrophic event not some mad max roving bandit movie scenario. TLDR; If you are buying guns and ammo ahead of paper maps, compasses, water purification, insulation, and first aid, and communications you aren't prepping. You are just propping up your fragile ego with a Rambo fantasy.