Solar outbursts more extreme than the Carrington Event have occurred at least twice in the last two thousand years. The evidence is in the ice cores, the tree rings, the geological record. If an event of that magnitude struck today, the cascading failures would be immediate. Computer systems down for months. Supply chains severed. No cash backup, no local food networks like the ones that existed just a generation ago. He grew up in Minnesota where most of the food came from within two miles of the house. That kind of resilience doesn't exist anymore. The question isn't whether another major solar event will happen. The question is what happens when it does, and whether modern civilization has any contingency for operating without the digital infrastructure it now depends on entirely.