• Solar Storm Put 1.4 Million in Dark - Puerto Rico Worst Hit

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 17 20:12:34 2025
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14623539/US-plunged-darkness-massive-solar-storm-puerto-rico.html

    More than 1.4 million people in Puerto Rico were plunged into
    darkness Wednesday after power went out across the entire island.

    Local power authorities reported a system failure around 12:40pm —
    the same time a powerful geomagnetic storm was striking Earth.

    A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disruption of Earth's magnetic
    field caused by a large burst of solar plasma, typically from a
    coronal mass ejection on the sun.

    . . .

    Now ... strictly ... it is NOT KNOWN if the solar
    storm caused this - it's just suspected because of
    the TIMING.

    However the PR power grid has become nefarious, old
    and poorly maintained.

    According to : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10695929/Major-outage-forces-Puerto-Rico-shutter-schools-offices.html

    It appears a big circuit breaker blew up at the main
    power plant and caused a fire. MIGHT have been a
    solar storm overload, MAYbe not. Could be no way to
    tell for sure.

    However customers said their service was OK for most
    of the day and then became flakier, then finally all
    gone, as the solar storm moved in.

    There were predictions that areas in the US midwest
    might also be affected, but so far no news on that.

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