It missed us by 9 days

People underestimate the seriousness of an event like this. It is NOT about the "inconvinience" of not being able to watch tv for a day. A world wide blackout would be absolutely catastrophic for a day or two and would mean the end of civilisation after a week or so. Why? You can not buy food without power. Even if you pay with cash, supermarkets dont function without their inverntory management sw. You also cant call the police, while all the cctvs and all the magnetic locks are down. Imagine the chaos and looting after decent ppl run out of food, and for less decent ppl even before that. Also drinking water needs pumps and purifying stations to work. And all this combined with the absolut chaos and uncertainty without internet and phone service. How do you even organise repairs and police intervention without cell service? All logisitcs and industries would immedietly crash along with the banking system and the stock exchanges. We could very well go back to sticks and stones after a week or two. Lets hope it would be resolved much faster.