Could You Survive a Carrington Event?

[The_Doc_Man]

For one viewpoint of this situation, see the novel "Earth Abides." There is also a TV series based on this work.

Earth Abides - Wikipedia

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As civilization decays because nobody can maintain the infrastructure, people must revert to a more primitive hunter/gatherer way of life. I've read it a long time ago. It was an example of how civilization dies, not with a bang but a whimper.

 

[Pat Hartman]

This sounds like a terrible and scary end, Cotswold

But it is realistic. Anything that shuts down our electric grid for more than a few days, even if it destroys nothing else will put us into a death spiral. Once the water treatment plants start shutting down, the average person will have trouble surviving. You can go a few weeks without food or live on short rations for months but without potable water, your lifespan will be measured in days. Food will already have been a problem and heat if it happened during the winter. Even if you have a fireplace, do you have enough wood to burn to keep warm? Can you acquire more? Yes, if you can manage to survive the first year, you can rebuild but staying alive that long will be impossible for most people who live in cities. People who live on farms or out in the woods where they have access to springs for water and food sources and fuel sources have the best chance of survival.

 

[Isaac]

Whenever I think of extremely miserable conditions such as post-acopalyptic mass suffering, painful terminal diseases, or captivation with torture, it always brings me back to my questioning of what is my view on suicide. Although I am a devoutly believing Christian, yet - the party line on suicide (that it's always wrong and no different than murder) bugs me a lot. Just doesn't sit right with me. Doesn't seem right.
Seems more to me that God would be very understanding of one's decision to end one's life for some drastic reason or another. This puts me very much at odds with my fellow believers, and in fact, many secular people.

A part of me just says this is a no-brainer - if your helicopter is downed in hostile Syrian territory and you see them closing in on you, and you decide this is what's best for you, (a hard decision that I would respect the outcome of), then by all means make sure you're right with God and put a bullet in your brain. If you're screaming in pain in disease and nobody can do anything for you and you may have substantial time left, then ...
That's just a part of me, though. Another part respects the traditional doctrine on this matter and feels that I should be pausing before ever recommending such a thing. The two parts are in conflict.

 

[Cotswold]

The Russians can create a Carrington apparently. This is right if true and propaganda and fear mongering if it isn't. You decide.
If propaganda it reminds us of the Covid years when World wide message from the WHO etc was "retain control by maintaining the fear"
After all there is another DAVOS meeting soon, maybe this is just a prelim for their next big idea?
In the 1970s we lived in fear with only a four minute warning of antihalation with bunkers all over the place for local politicians being built.

 

[Cotswold]

Not a Carrington Event but an Atmospheric Event has shut down large swathes of Spain and Portugal.
The Atmospheric Event is apparently, or is up to now being blamed on temperature. As high as 20ºc in the day and 7ºc has been mentioned!
So we can only think that this story has a way to run before we know the cause. They are talking about maybe a week of none at all, or intermittent power. They had this issue, then had to stop generating power as they couldn't send power into the grid whilst it was in a state of low demand.
Everyone on the news are in good spirits and appear to see it as a bit of a novelty but that will probably change noticeably after a few days.

Presumably the unpopular tourists will be at the back of the queue for just about everything until it is sorted out.

 

[Cotswold]

It does now appear that the Athmospheric Event, so called actually what they meant was too much cloud and not high temperatures. The nutty green commie brigade zealots have managed to close fossil fuel power stations over Spain, Portugal and parts of France. Nearly total reliance of solar caused the problem. So cloudy days shut down the power over three countries. That situation could last for weeks and nobody seems to worry.

If there happened to be another Krakatoya, those counries would be shut down for months, or years. Or even a smaller one in Iceland which is often predicted. There simply isn't a plan B, which is really the concern. These crackpot schemes are dreamt up by a bunch of the clueless idealistic.

Coming to a country like yours, maybe very soon? .....well not to the USA but no doubt to the rest of us in Europe.