This solar storm was a Corona Mass eject, (CME) not a solar flare, they travel a lot slower, Calling a solar flare and Corona mass eject a storm is like calling a small thunderstorm the same as a hurricane. There is no comparison. There should be scales for CME's as this to make people aware that there is a difference. There is for hurricanes, 1-5. There are not for CME's, there should be. A severe one could cause 90 percent of the human population or more to perish in a few years. There was a bill signed in 2019 by Trump to greatly harden our grid. Biden rescinded it the first day he was in office. This youtube shows here what could happen in the USA if a sever CME hit the planet to include about 90 percent of the people in this country will perish. This is a show by the History Channel with some of the best Physicists explaining what could happen to the USA. Albert Einstein went to Franklin Roosevelt and explained what could happen if the Nazis got the nuclear bomb before the USA. This Democrat President may not have understood the physics behind the nuclear bomb because it is a hard concept for most. He however believed Einstein. The USA therefore created the Manhattan Project, nuclear bombs were made and Japan surrendered because of them. Many believe saving millions of Lifes on both sides. https://youtu.be/JWpzpxqCzns?t=179
