User blog comment:Pencil-/Solar Storm Tomorrow!/@comment-3064571-20120308025907/@comment-3064571-20120308030336

Internet and power may go down and come back on frequently until the beam of particles has dispersed throughout the Earth. Radiation storms won't happen, this isn't a gamma-ray burst, which is only experienced during a supernova, and our Sun is not near its death, it has anout 5 billion years. It's a middle-aged star.