Like how you can fry your electronics if they’re plugged in when the power comes back on from an outage, why can’t we “unplug” everything so to speak?
In: Planetary Science
The “X-class” events that can really hurt us are hours long, and even during those, 99.something% of the time our infrastructure can handle it.
Basically, the multi-hour shutdown we’d need to make ourselves safe would be more disruptive than the “fry” events we’d be likely to get, so risk management says leave stuff on. (They leave our city power on during lightning storms too, because of pretty much the same reasoning.)
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