Interesting Steve because I was searching the USA Today paper from NFB 
Newsline for today and yesterday and found no reference to that story.  73, 
Jim WA6EKS


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Yup, I just didn't make it up--it was in the Detroit paper.
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> Steve, I looked for the article about the solar storm
> in USA Today both in today and yesterday's papers and couldn't
> find them.  Did you get it online somewhere? Jim WA6EKS
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> Date sent: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:26:20 -0400
> Subject: Solar Storm Heading for Earth
>
> BlankSolar storm heading for Earth By Doyle Rice USA TODAY A
> solar flare
> that launched off the sun Wednesday afternoon could wreak havoc
> with
> communications systems and power systems on the Earth, as well as
> with
> satellites in orbit, in coming days.  Forecasters with NOAA's
> Space Weather
> Prediction Center said the flare already "caused impacts to
> high-frequency
> radio communications on Earth today," according to NOAA.  "A
> coronal mass
> ejection (CME) associated with this event is likely, but further
> analysis is
> necessary to determine whether it will produce geomagnetic
> storming on
> Earth.  A coronal mass ejection contains billions of tons of
> energetic
> hydrogen and helium ions as well as protons and electrons ejected
> from the
> sun's surface.  If a CME occurred, Earth's magnetosphere will
> likely be
> disturbed and a geomagnetic storm could result in the next few
> days, NOAA
> reports.  NOAA space weather forecaster Bill Murtagh said that
> scientists
> will know more about when and where the impacts will be when more
> data comes
> in later Wednesday and early Thursday.  The flare is on the high
> end of the
> solar flare scale.  One nice side effect of the solar storm is an
> expansion
> of the photogenic aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, across
> Canada and the
> northern U.S.  The Northern Lights appear when atoms in the
> Earth's
> high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles
> from the
> sun.  They usually appear as shimmering green waves of light in
> the nighttime
> sky in polar latitudes.  Much more rarely, they can be red and
> even blue.