Carrington Event

The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created st…

Another event like this is what keeps me up at night. I haven’t backed up all my files in an external HD in a while and I know I need to do that.

It’s not just your files, although backing them up is important. If we get hit by another Carrington event it will quite possibly fry a lot of electronics.

I have a very rudimental Faraday Cage setup for this scenario. It’s just a steel bucket with a steel lid that’s lined on the inside with cardboard, and with aluminum foil on the outside to seal off the joins. But if I get notice that such an event I’d about to hit I’ll be throwing some critical smaller electronics (notable a raspberry pi and a mini monitor), cables, and a mini solar panel+plus inverter into it (along with my backup device) and sealing it up with more aluminum tape.