Space Weather Enterprise Forum Warnings
Space Storm Could Black Out US East Coast for Two Years – Expert, RIA Novosti
“Severe space ‘weather’ can knock out satellite communications and GPS systems, expose space tourists and astronauts to dangerous levels of radiation, and even cause massive blackouts on Earth that could last up to two years, scientists and NASA officials warned at a conference here on Tuesday.
The United States population that is at risk of an extended power outage from a Carrington-level storm is between 20-40 million, with an outage duration of possibly 16 days to one to two years, said Kathryn Sullivan.”
I wonder if there is insurance for a 2 year power outage. One might just move after a few weeks (on generator I guess). There are periodically smaller power outages due to thunderstorms/tornadoes that last a week+.
From what I gather, the extra-long sounding outage might be due to loss of a ton of transformers and new ones wouldn’t be made fast enough… but I didn’t find it obvious skimming the report.