Match Exact Phrase    

Whatfinger: Frontpage For Conservative News Founded By Veterans


"The Best Mix Of Hard-Hitting REAL News & Cutting-Edge Alternative News On The Web"





March 21, 2019

 Sun Casts C-4 Class Solar Flare Towards Earth Arriving Next 2 Days As New Report Warns Of Havoc Ahead: Devastating Solar Storm Could Bring Modern Society To A Screeching Halt

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die

According to this new story from Spaceweather, an Earth-directed solar flare has been cast into space by the Sun that is expected to impact our planet Earth sometime on March 22nd or 23rd. And while they report the explosion upon the Sun that hurled a coronal mass ejection into space is not headed directly towards the Earth and will likely only deliver our planet a glancing blow, this new C4-class flare from sunspot AR2736 is another reminder of just how vulnerable our planet Earth is to 'doom from the sun', especially in 2019.

As this March 18th story over at Zero Hedge reports, a new study titled "Multiradionuclide evidence for an extreme solar proton event around 2,610 B.P. (∼660 BC)" which had been published online on March 11th in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" warns a devastating solar storm striking the Earth once again is a matter of 'when', and not 'if', while warning such a storm will be sure to cause absolute havoc all across the planet.

Comparing what is likely to nail us at some point in the future to the huge solar storm that blasted the planet 2,600 years ago, (though causing little damage), their study warned that such an event in 2019 "would trigger widespread power outages and collapse communication and navigation systems. In short, modern society would come to a screeching halt".

And while the report gives no exact date for when such an event might once again occur, it ends by warning "the next severe solar storm could be imminent and threaten modern society" while also emphasizing the differences in our world today between the modern tech we have in 2019 and the 'Carrington Event' of 1859 that knocked out telegraph circuits around the world: "If those solar storm(s) had occurred today, (they) could have had severe effects on our high-tech society."

(If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep independent journalism alive.)

100_year_storm.jpg

In the image seen above taken from this recent story, we see how many hundreds of millions of Americans might be affected by a 100-year geomagnetic storm that takes down large sections of the power grid and as they reported within their story, a previously unpublished internal FEMA reports obtained via a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request highlight the extent of damage a major solar storm could cause to America and our 'critical infrastructure'

As their story reports, such a storm could cause “significant power grid collapses” with these stunning numbers being thrown about: “could require 4-10 years to fully restore.” We have embedded those reports in full at the bottom of this story. Susan Duclos had also reported upon that shocking FEMA study back on June 30th of 2017 within this ANP story.: 

The report covers a variety of scenarios, while detailing vulnerabilities and assessing risks, and while we encourage everyone to read the entire report (embedded below) for comprehensive understanding, we will highlight some of the most concerning below.

Under the category of “assessing the risk” on page 25, they highlight the 1859 Carrington-Hodgson, stating “Anecdotal observational records of low-latitude red aurora hint that the largest events may occur roughly every 500-600 years, before dropping the bombshell “However, events strong enough to severely impact modern systems may occur as frequently as once in 100 years .

Indeed two storms, 1859 and 1921, were of sufficient strength that their repeat today could cause large-scale power grid collapse.

The previously unpublished report also details how close we have already come to seeing the collapse of the Northeast and northern Midwest power grids back in 1989:


Further, the March 13, 1989 storm that collapsed the Hydro Quebec power grid in Canada came within seconds of collapsing the Northeast and northern Midwest U.S. power grid (Kappenman, 2005). Kappenman (2005) reports that “the size and intensity of this Westward Electrojet structure, had it developed 5- 7 h later, would have extended from east coast to west coast of the entire northern-latitude portions of the US power grid, and is likely to have produced much more significant consequential impacts … . ” It should be noted that the power grid, due to deregulation since 1989, is actually more vulnerable today (National Academy of Sciences, 2008).

cme_trigger.jpg

With our planet Earth so much more vulnerable now than it was during the 1859 Carrington event and even much more vulnerable now than it was during the 1989 solar storm, with every critical infrastructure across our society connected and completely dependent upon a fully functioning electrical grid, it's understandable why some experts warn that a long-term, grid down scenario could eventually lead to the deaths of 90% of Americans or more. 

And while talk of a cyber attack or EMP to bring down the grid generate a lot of headlines, as we see in the chart above taken from the FEMA report at the bottom of this story, a solar flare that brings down the grid may be not only much more likely than the other alternatives but totally and completely out of the control of human beings, with nature delivering the fatal blow.

As Susan has also reported within this June of 2017 ANP story, the electrical grid wouldn't be the only thing adversely affected with communications sure to suffer all across the planet.  

On page 13, shown in the chart above, they list the trigger/Scenario event as “CME arrives at Earth causing geomagnetic storm,” showing the warning times listed as “15 minutes for geoeffectivity (17 hours from flare sighting). Affects: GEO satellites on daylight side exposed to solar plasma ; Some satellite communications and GPS signals severely disrupted due to scintillation in ionosphere; HF systems may work due to increased ionization at ionosphere F Layer ; Significant power grid collapses may occur in North America and elsewhere; could require 4-1 0 years to fully restore; “Last mile” telecommunications lost where no backup power available (e.g. cable, VoIP, data networks, etc.)

While many preppers understand clearly that in a grid down scenario, we are on our own, or part of a community that is prepared, but the government will not immediately be on hand to help, but those that have denied that any grid down scenario could potentially last for years, will be completely unprepared for the fact that according to this newly revealed report, FEMA itself, as well as “partners at all levels, specifically state and local emergency management organizations that rely on amateur HF for incident operations support, will be suffering disruptions.

While the report also provides other tables/graphs, the one below shows the “cascading loss of telecommunications over time,” divided into four subsets, including 1) Immediate loss of service when power fails; 2) Loss of service after 2-8 hours without power; 3) Loss of service after 8-24 hours without power, and; 4) Loss of service after 1-8+ days (Scenario).

cascading_comm_losses.jpg
So how might one communicate should a Carrington-like event strike our planet and take all of the communications down with it? With practically all conventional ways of communication knocked down along with the electrical grid, and previous solar storms proving they'll fry communications such as the telegraph lines fried during the Carrington event, as Gray Wolf Survival reported back in 2013, one of the best ways to communicate going forward may be amateur or HAM radios. 

With any solar storm that fries our satellites also destroying the ability of satellite phones to communicate with the outside world, Gray Wolf reports that a HAM radio community already exists and in his opinion, is easily one of the best ways to communicate with the outside world in such a SHTF scenario.

However, as he points out within his story, such a radio should probably be kept in a faraday cage to ensure that its electronical components are also not fried should a killer solar flare be unleashed as we also hear in the 2nd video below. 

A few links to HAM radios for purchase are below.:

BaoFeng Walkie Talkie UV-5R Dual Band Two Way Radio

BaoFeng UV-5R MK4 8W High Power 2019 Two Way Amateur (Ham) Radio

TYT MD-380 - DMR/Moto TRBO Ham Radio

A few links to Faraday cage devices as well.:

Mission Darkness Non-Window Faraday Bag for Phones

Faraday Bag

Wifi Router Guard

TitanRF Faraday Fabric - EMI Shielding, RFID Shielding with military grade shielding fabric

From Gray Wolf Survival.: 

Ham radio is the go-to communication system for pretty much every emergency response system and is what MARS (the Military Auxiliary Radio System) and ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) both use, as well as many search and rescue and other emergency groups.

One of the nice things is that a lot of ham radios can reach the national weather system (NOAA) frequencies. That means that if you have a radio, you can find out what’s going on in the area. If you have a radio scanner, you can listen to what’s going on with emergency frequencies as well as any other that the scanner can reach, and you don’t have to know which one they’re transmitting on. That’s why they call it a scanner. It goes in a loop up through whatever frequencies you tell it to and it stops if it hears someone transmitting.

Here is a list of emergency radio frequencies that you should keep in mind when both looking for radios and coming up with your emergency communications plan. Just to pacify all the know-it-alls who keep telling me this list is crap because you can’t transmit on them – keep in mind that they’re useful to monitor in emergencies even if you can’t send anything out, and I wanted to make as complete a list as I could for everyone. His full list can be found here


34.90: Used nationwide by the National Guard during emergencies.
39.46: Used for inter-department emergency communications by local and state police forces.
47.42: Used across the United States by the Red Cross for relief operations.
52.525: Calling frequency used by ham radio operators in FM on their six-meter band. 121.50: International aeronautical emergency frequency.
138.225: Disaster relief operations channel used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency; it is active during earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other catastrophic events.
146.52: Used by ham radio operators for non-repeater communications on the two-meter band; it is very busy in many parts of the country.
151.625: Used by “itinerant” businesses, or those that travel about the country. Circuses, exhibitions, trade shows, and sports teams are some of the users you can hear. Other widely used itinerant channels are
154.57 and 154.60. 154.28: Used for inter-department emergency communications by local fire departments; 154.265 and 154.295 also used.
155.160: Used for inter-department emergency communications by local and state agencies during search and rescue operations.
155.475: Used for inter-department emergency communications by local and state police forces.

grid_down_city.jpg

With big American cities sure to turn into death traps should the electric grid go down for an extended period of time, with most Americans totally unprepared for even a 3-day grid down scenario much less the grid going down for potentially a year or much longer, what makes America so advanced over much of the rest of the world is also our 'achilles heel'

As we had reported on ANP back in November of 2018, each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors in America is directly tied to the other sectors, and with all of them completely dependent upon electricity to function, it's easy to see just how interconnected and potentially fragile our critical infrastructure is here in America. And where goes our critical infrastructure, there goes America. 

So we'll close with these final words of timeless advice from Susan Duclos from this June of 2017 ANP story

These reports clearly shows that it is not just a nuclear world war or a possible EMP attack via another country or terrorists that could cause a grid down scenario, but weather events that occur approximately every hundred years, with the scope of our technology, could so far worse damage now than they did when they previously occur.

Consider the fact that this report was created internally for FEMA in 2010, meaning the more recent reports along with risk assessments have not been shared with the public, but they must be at least as informative as this one, especially given Barack Obama’s October of 2016 executive order dealing specifically with “Space Weather Events,” which highlights preparing the nation for events like “solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances.”

Preparation is key and people should not get lax in continuing to prepare for the possibility of the power grid going down, because as these internal reports and risk assessments show, things will be a lot worse than what the general public has been told previously.







MARCH FUNDRAISER: Despite generous donations, the still dwindling advertising revenue over the course of the last two years has forced us to completely deplete all our savings just to survive and continue to keep All News PipeLine online.

During the month of March, ANP is running a fundraising drive.

PLEASE HELP KEEP ANP ALIVE BY DONATING USING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING METHODS.


One time donations or monthly, via Paypal or Credit Card:

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

Or  https://www.paypal.me/AllNewsPipeLine

Donate monthly from $1 up by becoming an ANP Patron.

PatreonButton1.jpg

Donate Via Snail Mail

Checks or money orders made payable to Stefan Stanford or Susan Duclos can be sent to:

P.O. Box 575
McHenry, MD. 21541

DONATEANP1.jpg

Uncovered FEMA Report Warns... by on Scribd










WordPress Website design by Innovative Solutions Group - Helena, MT
comments powered by Disqus

Web Design by Innovative Solutions Group