“Within 72 Hours, the American Population Will Break Down”: Lt. Col. Tommy Waller

In 1859, telegraph operators in Boston disconnected their batteries and kept transmitting messages to Portland, Maine, powered by nothing but the electrical current the Earth itself was generating. The Carrington Event, history’s largest recorded geomagnetic storm, had turned the planet’s crust into a conductor. People in New Orleans read newspapers by the green and purple glow of aurora that had no business appearing at that latitude. Telegraph systems threw sparks, shocking operators and starting fires in some telegraph stations. Magnetometers, which had been recently invented to measure the Earth’s magnetic field strength, showed enormous fluctuations worldwide.

The telegraph was the only electrical infrastructure that existed back then. Today, the United States depends on thousands of extra-high-voltage transformers, some weighing 500,000 pounds, that take four to six years to manufacture overseas (many custom built) and require specialized railcars called Schnabel carts to transport. The country owns only a limited number of those carts. And 623 of those transformers were manufactured in China, where federal investigators have already found hardware backdoors in at least one seized unit that could allow remote shutdown.

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