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 Please tell me more about this nonsense... How could solar storm destroy cables... Maybe some wireless for a while would be down with bandwidth... 
 If you understand how inductors work, it will show the absolute wreckage that a solar storm can cause.

Any moving charged particles (like from a solar storm) will create a magnetic field. Any changing magnetic field will also induce the movement of charged particles.

Strong, variable magnetic fields with start to cause charges to move in electronics in ways that they weren't designed for, destroying them. This can also happen at larger scales like an electrical grid.