partly because they were telegraph wires and not power wires. most signal cables now are shielded. the voltages that would be induced would likely not fuse most electrical distribution wiring, that's not the vulnerability, it's the transformers, like nostr:npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0z...

Personally I'm bored of Carrington Event and pole shift doomers. Most of the rest of the prepper community for that matter. There is no reliable or useful data for predicting how often those events happen and they are semi random not clockwork anyhow. Stop saying "We're due" when you have no way o...