If you think Sandy was bad.....

This ball of fire almost gave Earth a bashing back in 2012. You wouldn’t believe how close we came to a catastrophic solar flare. Source: AP

This is a piece of rather sobering news.  

You are probably not aware of the fact that on July 23, 2012, just three short months before Super Storm Sandy turned all our lives upside down, our planet had a near miss with a huge coronal mass ejection (CME)  resulting from the most powerful solar storm on the sun in over 150 years.

According to the experts, if the solar storm storm has occurred just one week earlier, the Earth would have been in the cross hairs of the CME and the lives each and every individual on our planet would be markedly different today!

Had we been struck head on by this solar storm all electrical circuits would have been fried.

Satellites, power grids, sewage systems, all forms of transportation, communications, etc., would have immediately gone belly up!

Remember what it was like immediately after Sandy with no power, communications or fuel for several weeks?  If this storm had struck us and, as one expert put it, "We would still be picking up the pieces today."  We would have been thrown back into the dark ages for a period of many years before everything was was back up and running and even then, it would be a vastly different life than the one we enjoy now. 

Interestingly enough, not unlike Super Storm Sandy, the CME that almost battered us was also a freak occurrence as it was actually two ejections within 10 minutes of each other, plus a previous CME had happened four days earlier to effectively clear the path.

Another thing to keep in mind is just how much worse conditions would have been had this solar storm hit us back on July 23, 2012 only to be followed up by Sandy 3 months later.  We would have made the trip from "dark ages" to "stone age" in the blink of an eye!  We certainly wouldn't have been able to depend on "Build It Back" to get us back on our feet. Oh, wait a minute, we haven't been able to depend on Build It Back to get us on our feet anyway!

But I digress.....I know you are reading this and thinking to yourself, "How come I never heard of this before?" 

The simple answer is our government, and more specifically NASA, didn't feel it was necessary to mention this "near miss" until just recently.

Makes you wonder what else they have decided is not necessary to tell us!