Now the Sun could if it did something it never has before.

The sun literally took down major infrastructure in 1859, and with our greater reliance on technology than simply telegraphs, it would -- yes, in fact -- do this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

This is the singular event that has been fearmongered about for decades as being destructive to our current structure, and we're probably due for another one at some point anyway.

Unless you actually think we had Project Blue Beam in the mid 1800s, this was reported across the world and not an isolated incident.