It missed us by 9 days

Bearing in mind that most electrical transformers are sourced from Asia, recovery would depend not only on their continued ability to construct such devices but their ability to repair their own grid because I'm sure everybody else would be second in line.

There were several bills introduced over the last 25 years or so that would harden the power grid against such events, although the primary fear at that time was an EMP attack from someone like Iran or north korea.

These were dismissed as political fear mongering even though the physics of solar storms were reasonably well understood at the time and were even cited as a possible threat scenario.