Did The World Escape An EMP Catastrophe?

Massive Solar Flare Narrowly Misses Earth, EMP Disaster Barely Avoided -- Washington Examiner

The earth barely missed taking a massive solar punch in the teeth two weeks ago, an "electromagnetic pulse" so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States.

Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.

"The world escaped an EMP catastrophe," said Henry Cooper, who led strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense.

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My Comment: I expect that one day we will have an EMP event that will shut down the electrical and communications grid. Will it be a disaster? Hmmmm .... on this question I am skeptical.

I live in Montreal, and I have also lived through the ice storm of 1998 that shut down a good part of the electrical grid of this city .... in my case I had no power for almost 8 days. In a certain way the City of Montreal was hit with an event that mimicked what an emp event will cause .... no electricity. When this happened it was winter .... it was also very cold outside (we had temperatures reaching -20C at night a few days later) .... but here is the surprise .... we all survived. We all helped each other .... crime actually decreased .... and while life was uncomfortable the entire city did manage to do what they could do to keep essential services running (i.e. hospitals and some transportation grids), setting up emergency shelters, and taking care of those who could not take care of themselves, etc.. After a few weeks .... everything was back to normal

With this experience I can easily say that a global EMP event will be a hit .... but it will not be a catastrophe. It will take time to recover and life will be tough .... but we will recover .... and in a few months everything will be back to normal.