Only request - the first time you put my name into an article, use the full "Patricia" so they know I’m a YL.
For what it’s worth, we got auroras in the Houston suburbs during the March ’89 event, and only one other one I know of since then. (memory fails… maybe the halloween storm?)
The farmers all thought their neighbor’s fields were on fire from the red glow and more than one Volunteer Fire Department was called out.
A friend sent me a photo but it’s pretty dim, and it's on a slide. I should try to get it scanned I guess. Our realtime forecast using Boyle has been running since 2003 (and the halloween storm was the first Red Alert we sent out).
Also, for the general public, I have done a few talks this fall about space weather and major events (that you are welcome to link to).
It shows the examples of halo CME’s.
and here is a talk for the Katy Amateur Radio Society which is a bit more technical:
https://youtu.be/kiccwcLwjFc