Copying my comment here from the post over in [email protected]:

Thought this was interesting. It references another event I hadn’t heard of:

The model confirmed that the detected solar event was approximately 18% stronger than the notorious AD 775 event—until now the strongest solar storm ever recorded in tree-ring archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774–775_carbon-14_spike

Over on HN, someone wrote this:

On the other hand, would allergy sufferers be marvelling at the removal of all the dust and pollen? This would be like the outdoors becoming a giant anti-static dust remover.

Not something I’ve heard about before, but that would be super interesting

Would be a lot cooler if it had happened five years earlier

If anything like The Carrington Event happens again before we get mitigation strategies in place, our society instantly crumbles

The Squatter Man Event

https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2007/arch07/070709squatterman.htm