Could You Survive a Carrington Event? (1 Viewer)

[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.

 

[Mark_]

While I may not be able to, a Soviet Lada would be just fine.

 

[RogerCooper]

Checkout this report https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pd...-Risk-to-the-North-American-Electric-Grid.pdf from Lloyd's of London. It is worth noting that a Carrington-level storm would not knock electricity world-wide. The risk varies greatly from place to place depending on latitude, proximity to the sea and underlying geology.