AI6YR BenMay 10, 2024
G4! #spaceweather https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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Show threadAI6YR BenMay 10, 2024

Official NOAA Warning:

On Thursday, May 9, 2024, the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch. At least five earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed and expected to arrive as early as midday Friday, May 10, 2024, and persist through Sunday, May 12, 2024. Several strong flares have been observed over the past few days and were associated with a large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster (NOAA region 3664), which is 16 times the diameter of Earth.

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Show threadAI6YR BenMay 10, 2024
*please, if we're going to have a Carrington event, I'd like to get home from yet another trip hauling people to/from LAX, thank you.
Show threadAI6YR BenMay 10, 2024
19 hr 3 min to walk that sucker... 49.2 miles. Most I have walked in a day is 20 miles, and that sucked. So... make that a 3 day trip, with water and people who have lost their minds the biggest issue, LOL.Hit the nearest bicycle store or find someone who'd sell you a bike and make it a 5 hour pedal... #contingencyplanning (not seriously worried about this, but always fun to think out scenarios).
Show threadAI6YR BenMay 10, 2024
Bicycle stores in West LA, mostly. Looks like the (theoretical contingency) plan would be to hoof it to the nearest bicycle store, buy a bicycle (if they would even sell one) and then pedal all the way home (MTB probably best for terrain). Better odds buying one off an unhoused individual stashing one under a freeway, LOL. -- again, wouldn't expect anything big, but contigency planning always is fun for disasters.
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@ai6yr better carry cash for such contingency purchases.
May 10, 2024 at 4:31amWeb