Impending Space storm

[Garmard]

http://uk.news.yahoo....uld-wrea-41f21e0.html

Discuss...?

[redcrx]

wonder if its the same researchers who warned us every computer system failing on the dawn of the new millenium?

[Garmard]

Seems a bit far fetched does it not red?

[Greedyfly]

Super storms sound right up my alley!

[jake-the-peg]

Red you have no idea how much overtime I and people like me logged up in the late 90's in order to find all of those problems and get them fixed.

Found a fair few too!

I'd be annoyed if it hadn't paid for the deposit on a house :c)

Once in a lifetime's a bit melodramatic 1989 was the last real bad one

Knocked out much of Montreal

http://www.solarstorms.org/SWChapter1.html

Hopefully power engineers learnt from that and systems will cope now

on the plus side could be some good Northern Lights!

[squarebear]

Me too jake. We worked round the clock so people wouldn't notice anything going wrong.

I compared it to a train heading towards a canyon with a bridge out. The engineers worked like crazy to repair the bridge, the train sailed over smoothly and the passengers said, "Well I noticed nothing. What was the fuss about?".

If it wasn't for people working all hours back in the late 1990's, the year 2000 would have been a lot worse.