Yes, that report is creepy. It would take so many years to restore the electrical grid's damaged hardware and every aspect of modern civilization, in the developed world, is dependent on electricity.

Think I saw something about the possibility on the Discovery or History Channels this winter.

Talk about a stimulus program, we'd all be put to work building transformers.

big article

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20....html?full=true

Interesting listing of past magnetic storms, replete with links to contemporaneous news articles.

http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html