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DHS: 100 Million Americans Could Lose Power in Major Sun Storm
Free Beacon ^ | December 12 2014 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 12/12/2014 7:41:57 AM PST by MeshugeMikey

Millions of Americans face catastrophic loss of electrical power during a future magnetic space storm that will disrupt the electric grid and cause cascading infrastructure failures, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document.

DHS’ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) stated in an internal 2012 fact sheet outlining its response plan for severe “space weather” that the actual impact and damage from a future solar storm is not known.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emp; gridinsecurity; hmmm; powergrid
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the dhs?
1 posted on 12/12/2014 7:41:57 AM PST by MeshugeMikey
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


2 posted on 12/12/2014 7:42:56 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: MeshugeMikey

Will Al Gore pontificate on global warming?


3 posted on 12/12/2014 7:43:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

al will of course assert that we have reeked havoc ...with the weather....on the sun.

Whitey Must Pay

“GAIA is ANGRY with US!”


4 posted on 12/12/2014 7:44:37 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Note to self:  buy more candles, inspect chimney flue, split the last of that storm deadfall, break ebook habit . . .


it's always somethin'

5 posted on 12/12/2014 7:48:37 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Kartographer

Note to self: run test on house gen set this weekend.


6 posted on 12/12/2014 7:50:47 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.d)
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To: Kartographer
Prepping took on a new urgency for me. I got two years. Maybe.

That urgency is from the knowledge that both parties are trying to kill America.

7 posted on 12/12/2014 7:52:06 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Three words come to mind:

False flag set-up.


8 posted on 12/12/2014 7:52:15 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: MeshugeMikey
If this happens, there will be no stopping the cascade of calamity.

Click the pic to the full-text Free Republic thread.

9 posted on 12/12/2014 7:57:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Headline: “Without the constant increase of evil ‘See Uh Oh 2’, we would not be seeing these AGW caused solar storms.” says the goracle!”


10 posted on 12/12/2014 7:59:06 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: exit82

The same thought crossed my mind. There have been numerous articles over the past few months detailing how various government agencies are preparing for “civil unrest”. Seems clear to me that is exactly what they want.


11 posted on 12/12/2014 8:00:02 AM PST by Thermalseeker (If ignorance is bliss how come there aren't more happy people?)
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To: exit82
False flag set-up.

these bastards won't quit.

12 posted on 12/12/2014 8:00:06 AM PST by uncitizen (our government is treasonous)
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To: MeshugeMikey

So? All Americans have already lost their Constitution...


13 posted on 12/12/2014 8:00:28 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kartographer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3236194/posts?page=5#5


14 posted on 12/12/2014 8:01:45 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

We’ll probably lose the grid in a cyberattack and our gov’mint will lie and say it was Mr. Sun.


15 posted on 12/12/2014 8:02:48 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well, these worthless t^rds could do something about it, but they won’t.


16 posted on 12/12/2014 8:13:36 AM PST by Gritty (The liberal gleichschaltung; get with the program or be flattened by it - Jonah Goldberg)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Got a metal garbage can just for the occasion. Radios, batteries, electronics. Just in case someone is broadcasting


17 posted on 12/12/2014 8:15:18 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: MeshugeMikey

aka EMP attack.


18 posted on 12/12/2014 8:15:53 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Lazamataz

It’d be great if fighting back did any damned good.


19 posted on 12/12/2014 8:17:48 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Kartographer

If they followed SpaceWeather.com like I do they would have three days warning.

I can lay in a lot of gas for my generator in that time.


20 posted on 12/12/2014 8:19:41 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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