Are you old enough to remember 1989, when we had big geomagnetic storms? What did you do then? Personally, I vaguely remember hearing about the power outage. I suppose if I had been in the power outage myself, I might have a bit better memory, but it certainly doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that, on a personal level, warrants a great deal of preparation or concern. Speaking of power outages, I was lucky, but after a recent storm, friends a few blocks away had a longer power outage than the one in '89. Of course, this particular storm didn't affect as many people at once, but power outages aren't exactly unknown.

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