ELI5- Why did the solar storm that caused all the aurora borealis not cause any damage to our electrical systems?

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I thought large solar eruptions or solar storms (not sure proper terminology for most recent event) were expected to cause a fair amount of damage to electrical grids, communication services, and GPS, but I haven’t seen any reports of that. Why?

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It actually caused some issues at my job. We run fully autonomous dump trucks and we had a lot of comms issues during it and had to park the fleet up for an hour or two.

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