A lot of mitigations are in place in the US electrical grid to prevent solar storms from inducing EMF in transmission lines, reducing the impact. Communications lines are now mostly fiber or underground so they're protected. Not impossible some rural areas (like mine) don't get hit hard though, depending on whether those mitigations have been put in place.
o0shad0o 0 points 1 week ago
A lot of mitigations are in place in the US electrical grid to prevent solar storms from inducing EMF in transmission lines, reducing the impact. Communications lines are now mostly fiber or underground so they're protected. Not impossible some rural areas (like mine) don't get hit hard though, depending on whether those mitigations have been put in place.