Disturbing, yes. This one is frightening, and will become an eventuality; not if, but when.
Schools are open hunting grounds. After reading this, every American will have a firearm, and be trained on how to use it in a national mass murder crisis.
Posted on 08/15/2016 9:04:51 AM PDT by bananaman22
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.
Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.
Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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It is sad but its not usually a priority.
They’re pretty loud. Mr. Megan took two of his old construction site generators and put them in an outbuilding to use as generators for the ranch when power goes out (happens a lot in the winter). The noise outside isn’t bad but inside the shed you want ear protection when those things are running. Only one of them runs at a time and the other is a backup.
That is hands down the most disturbing book I have ever read.
Great tip!
Wouldn't want to be their IT manager, nor their Disaster Recovery guy...
Watch TV by candle light.
But if we all want to see what it looks like when the power goes out look no further than Detroit, Baltimore, Ferguson, and now, Milwaukie.
I suspected a hack.
Won’t an EMP burn out all of the electronins in AC Units and all Generators (gas & solar), making them useless?
Former company rented space at an enormous data center. Place had bulletproof power in place - multiple sources, plenty of UPS, generated power for days. No worries, right?
Not so much. We got hit twice about a month apart, two power "hiccups". Downtime length doesn't really matter, if the power goes out for 5 seconds or 5 days, you've lost everything in-flight, computers are going to reboot, etc. We lost a fair number of harddrives when all of the servers cycled. Major PITA.
Much, much later I heard (unofficially, through an engineer there) that the outages were caused by a disgruntled employee who knew where the weak points were.
So - it happens. Not unimaginable.
That is hands down the most disturbing book I have ever read.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058882/posts?q=1&;page=381
"Computer techie types" know that servers and routers don't work without power. More likely the fault of "manager bean-counter types" who saw a way to "save money" and ordered corners to be cut.
Disturbing, yes. This one is frightening, and will become an eventuality; not if, but when.
Schools are open hunting grounds. After reading this, every American will have a firearm, and be trained on how to use it in a national mass murder crisis.
Wondering what is this website you are linking to? War is Boring??
Who is the author, Mathew Gault...What are his credentials??
Do you agree with the article that EMP threat is overrated?
Then their backup power plan was junk. In my experience power fail or fluctuation doesnt cause computing outages. Sounds like you and they cheaped out on that plan or didnt understand how it should go together.
LOL! Best accomplished with your eyes closed.
When is the last time a nuclear power plant was built in the United States? What are best industry estimates for the next nuke plant to go online here in ye olde homeland? It is very frustrating to me that this incredibly powerful, cheap and safe technology is being ignored - in favor of costly alternatives of dubious value.
Sorry - if you ask the techies, they’ll tell you, at a minumum, to put in UPSs to allow a graceful shutdown.
Generators are better.
Running tests where you pull the plug completely to see if the generators come on line or the UPSs allow the graceful shutdown are best of all.
Gault works for Reuters and contributes to war is boring. He contributes to Real Clear Defense also (offshoot of Real Clear Politics).
I don't know much else about him.
I think it's worth considering the opinions within the article. Using a nuke to create an EMP raises interesting scenarios.
Exactly.
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