steam age if total grid down

only people who are prepared for it will be ok

also, in fact, you can even have diesel engines without electricity, but if we get blasted repeatedly by heavy sun-burps there won't be any working electrical things left

this is why i have it in my mind to build an underground structure with tin and carbon radiation shielding, to keep a few things going like some computers for accessing information and doing calculations

but outside of that, it's gonna be steam trains and herding cattle and goats and sheep and growing gardens and blacksmithing

there is a lot of tech that doesn't need electricity, and an increasing amount of optical computer and communications tech that won't be taken out by CMEs but it's fairly likely that by around 2035 there will be such events and loss of infrastructure and bricked everything