“The exercise was held from May 8 to 9, 2024, at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and at a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) site in Denver, Colorado.”
Article refers to a PDF of the report it’s based on:
https://www.jhuapl.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/Space-Weather-TTX-Report-Summary-v3-FINAL.pdf
You know those stories where the world is reduced to a post-apocalypse after a natural event? What if that’s only what happens in the US, and the rest of the world recovers with ease due to extant rescue services?
Oooh, so that’s why apocalyptic movies are almost always only US oriented
If it wasn’t for the stupid Darrel Dixon show, my head canon of the walking dead only affecting America would still stand.
They literally just walk, and it would be pretty obvious that everyone is infected after the first year or so of people dying from the flu and shit. Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.
True but you underestimate people stupidity.
Imagine the zombie rights guests on a Joe Rogan podcast.
Exactly
Yeah we need to stop giving dumb idiots microphones
After experiencing the covid-19 outbreak I am now fully convinced that a zombie apocalypse is feasible, there would be people denying the existence of the zombie virus, just going to the infected an getting bitten because they wanted a pizza or something, that and people just drenching themselves in bleach or something because they heard that keep the zombies away from some dude online. Stuff like that.
Stuck having to go to work in a zombie apocalypse because you’re an “essential worker”.
I’ve always thought that if I’m in a zombie apocalypse im just gonna carry super soakers filled with hydrogen peroxide
Isn’t that the case in the 28 X later series? Like England fell to a zombie apocalypse but the rest of the world is doing fine?
Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually…
There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the ‘hit’. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).
It is a little more complex than that. You cannot only consider how big is a country or how big is its grid.
If the Europe would be hit by a solar storm, assuming that not all of it was hit we can recover the grid in about a month and the blackout would not be longer than maybe a week.
But a solar storm would destroy also everything else, so how big is the grid is really irrelevant when you basically have every other piece (excluded the few hardened enough) destroyed.
I remember a Tumblr (maybe) post with a similar concept, but about Australia and the Mad Max series.
…and simply agrees to never, ever, set foot in North America.
I’m in.
Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America, Mexico, and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours to The Wastelands.
Fuck Mexico, I guess.
My sincere apologies, Mexico is definitely on the good list.
Just uhhh… Build a wall, I guess?