[IMR 4350]

I recall about 1-2 years ago the electricity was going off in different places across the country without any explanation.

Here in Texas the electricity went out in a strip from where I live up through the Conroe area. No rhyme or reason to the outage. Not even the same electricity providers.

My buddy up around Conroe had some of his electronics fried cost him several hundred bucks.

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We had the same problem with electro-magnetic weapons tests at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the Livermore Valley, about forty years ago. The Concord tests caused automatic garage doors over wide areas to open and close simultaneously, which created a significant power drain (and surge) on the Pacific Gas & Electric system in the area. PG&E complained to Congress who ordered the Navy to cease the tests.

Likewise the LRL tests stopped then late-model cars on Highway 280 in the Livermore Valley and produced similar complaints. The LRL moved the tests to the hills south of 280 where they stopped cars in the Del Puerto Canyon area, and sometimes in the southbound lanes of I-5. That hasn't happened for about the past ten years.