It missed us by 9 days

I always understood the longer the insulated wire was the more voltage that wire was going to produce during these storms which is why a lot of the smaller unplugged items would be ok. Their circuits are too short. The power that would destroy the most stuff would be coming into your home on the same circuit as the power you normally get from your local power provider.    Wouldn't it just trip the breaker and any excess voltage would go into the 4'+ metal ground rod that's normally on modern systems incase the house gets struck by lightning? If it is installed properly it is the shortest route to ground from the power box so it shouldn't go through your home devices no? Homes during the Carrington even never had gfi breakers or ground rods. Most items plugged into these modern systems should actually be ok. The problem is that all the power lines everywhere would just melt because they are miles and miles long. Anyone with their own power solutions on their property  (solar/wind) would be ok. Everyone else would have to ask themselves if it made sense to pay to replace/repair the old dated power infrastructure or instead switch to smaller and in that situation cheaper renewable systems. Could be God's way of forcing us off the fossil fuel power solutions because we will be too cheap to buy a septillion miles of copper and aluminum cable to get those systems back up. I think of the family guy skit where the dude is asking his neighbor to share some power. Lol after that plays out for the first year most people wouldn't have been waiting around for those repairs to take 10 years.