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Extreme geomagnetic storm prompts grid emergency precautions

Geomagnetic storm news

A severe geomagnetic storm impacting Earth has been upgraded to an “extreme” G5 classification, leading power grid operator Transpower to issue a “grid emergency” notice and remove several transmission lines as a precautionary measure.

The agency expects the space weather event to affect Earth over the weekend due to heightened solar activity.

A Transpower spokesperson confirmed that transmission lines across the South Island and some substations on the North Island have been temporarily taken out of operation to mitigate potential damage. The grid emergency notice, initially set to expire by noon, has been extended to mid-tomorrow. Despite this, the agency does not anticipate any disruptions to New Zealand’s electricity supply.

The extreme geomagnetic storm, upgraded from a G4 level, could produce northern lights in parts of the United States and potentially interfere with global communications. Similar space weather events have previously caused significant disruptions, such as the 2003 storm that knocked out power in Sweden and damaged South African transformers.

Forecasters from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) caution that high-voltage transmission lines could be at risk due to these storms, while residential electrical lines typically remain unaffected.

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  1. We hope for a space storm to knock the whole lot of communication and it’s goodbye to digital currency and many other types of digital tyranny.

  2. Tell me again how I should be more concerned about plastic and cow farts than the 1.4 million kilometre wide nuclear fusion reaction up in the sky…

  3. The 1859 Carrington Event…needed in 2024!!!
    The PTB and their DUMBs (Deep Underground Military Bases) have a secondary power supply which, being underground, remains unaffected by EMP’s, Solar Flares, nukes, etc.
    Most of the ‘spare above-ground electrical equipment’ which would otherwise be damaged is in storage underground.
    The Deagel Forecast (a CIA / DIA / NSA-asset) predicts 2025 as the year that the U.S. population and the populations in the West will decline rapidly- possibly from EMPs, Solar Flares, the Covid Vaccine reactions, the release of more Plandemic viruses, and geo-kinetic wars.
    Couple this with the deliberately-planned loss of food production and processing, extreme hypwer inflation, and a growing population that cannot find shelter, and the death rates soar.

  4. (BE SURE TO GO BAREFOOT WHEN OUTSIDE IN ORDER TO GROUND YOURSELF TO THE EARTH….)

    Geo-Magnetic Storm MIGHT DESTROY COVID NANO-BOTS!
    Hal Turner World May 11, 2024 Hits: 15377
    Geo-Magnetic Storm MIGHT DESTROY COVID NANO-BOTS!

    The massive geo-magnetic storm striking earth from solar flares might DESTROY the self-assembling nano-technology allegedly inside the COVID-19 “vaccines.” Get outside and expose yourself to the storm this weekend!

    For years most of us have heard the claims that the COVID-19 jabs contained nano-technology. Self-assembling nanobots that have caused people to start emitting their own Bluetooth signals!

    But the ongoing geo-magnetic storm hitting earth from coronal mass ejections (CME) from the Sun, might destroy all that. The CME’s cause voltage surges in electric grids and in transformers. That’s why there is satellite disruption, radio blackouts on shortwave, and a risk to fragile electronic devices.

    As earth’s magnetic field is impacted by all the high-energy particles blasted from the sun, the magnetic field “induces voltage” in objects capable of generating or using electricity.

    Well, those self-assembling nanobots are allegedly using our own bodies to power themselves. So if we go out into this geo-magnetic storm, earth’s magnetic field might just induce voltages in those nanobots, destroying them!

    Get outside this weekend. EXPOSE YOUR BODY TO THE GEO-MAGNETIC STORM. Go out and walk down the avenue and do window shopping. Go out and walk — or just sit — in a wide open park. Do SOMETHING . . . and do it outdoors. Expose yourself to the storm raging in space above our atmosphere.

    It won’t hurt your body to be outside, but it may very well zap the living crap out of the man-made – and very fragile – nanotechnology!!!!! Wipe it right out!

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