{"id":24194,"date":"2017-06-23T07:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24194"},"modified":"2017-06-23T07:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:21:26","slug":"fema-is-preparing-for-a-solar-storm-that-would-take-out-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24194","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Is Preparing For A Solar Storm That Would Take Out The Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

FEMA Is Preparing For A Solar Storm That Would Take Out The Grid<\/a><\/h3>\n
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FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) is planning for a massive solar storm<\/a> that would be so strong, it would take down the power grid<\/a>. Noting that the rare, yet \u201chigh-consequence\u201d scenario has \u201cthe potential for catastrophic impact on our nation and FEMA\u2019s ability to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to unpublished FEMA documents<\/a> obtained by Government Attic<\/a>, a FOIA\u00a0(Freedom of Information Act)<\/a> database and non-profit organization, the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> agency once mapped out a disaster plan for the occurrence of another geomagnetic \u201csuper storm\u201d like the one the occurred in 1859.<\/p>\n

Back then, the sun flung a giant plume of magnetized plasma out into space. The coronal mass ejection (CME)<\/a>, the sibling of a massive solar flare,<\/a> traveled the 93 million miles between the Sun and Earth in only 17.6 hours. Today, it\u2019s known as the Carrington Event<\/a> and is remembered by the largest geomagnetic storm in the history of recorded space weather.<\/p>\n

No other storm has matched it in speed or magnitude.\u00a0When the shock wave of accelerated particles arrived on September 1, 1859, the disturbances to Earth\u2019s magnetosphere<\/a> were so great that telegraph communications across Europe and North America went on the fritz. Sparks leaped from the\u00a0telegraph infrastructure<\/a>, and machinery was so inundated<\/a> with electric currents that operators were able to transmit messages while disconnected from battery power. Compasses even wiggled,<\/a> and brilliant auroras were reportedly seen as far south as the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean the ill-equipped government isn\u2019t<\/a>\u00a0preparing for the inevitability, in fact, they are. Despite our superior ability to predict these events, the stakes are exponentially higher in a modern, hyper-connected world.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0FEMA predicts that a geomagnetic storm of this intensity would be \u201ca catastrophe in slow motion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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FEMA Is Preparing For A Solar Storm That Would Take Out The Grid FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) is planning for a massive solar storm that would be so strong, it would take down the power grid. Noting that the rare, yet \u201chigh-consequence\u201d scenario has \u201cthe potential for catastrophic impact on our nation and FEMA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[307,15410,4721,6489,1574,1575,15409],"class_list":["post-24194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-fema","tag-government-attic","tag-grid-loss","tag-mac-slavo","tag-power-grid","tag-power-loss","tag-solar-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24195,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194\/revisions\/24195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}