In a recent article published by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) they said the USA wouldn't be able to cope with a major solar flare that can possibly interrupt America's power grid. Such an event could actually doom most of America's transformers, crippling the USA's power grid for "months" and anarchy rage on in America as the government wouldn't be able to control its citizens.

The report went on stating: "A contemporary repetition of the [1859] event would cause significantly more extensive (and possibly catastrophic) social and economic disruptions, space weather can produce solar storm electromagnetic fields that induce extreme currents in wires, disrupting power lines, causing wide-spread blackouts and affecting communication cables that support the Internet. Severe space weather also produces solar energetic particles and the dislocation of the Earth's radiation belts, which can damage satellites used for commercial communications, global positioning and weather forecasting."