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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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