Posted on 04/10/2015 12:32:55 PM PDT by Kartographer
The April 7th, 2015 power outage in Washington DC is curious to say the least. Virtually instantaneously, the government declare it was not a terrorist attack. After all, how could that possibly be when the NSA guards the country. If there was an attack on the power-grid, then the NSA would have to answer for their failure. So clearly, if it was an attack, they would never admit it.
Instead, this has been attributed to a piece of metal breaking loose from a power line 43 miles southeast of the District of Columbia, which knocked out electricity to the White House, State Department and wide area including parts of Maryland. Can a simple piece of metal break and shut down that much power of a strategic area as DC? That seems to be an excuse like some drunk driver knocked over a power pole.
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If the government declares something is or was not, it usually is or was.
IIRC, some buildings only suffered *partial* blackouts.
failed or shot out?
Thanks.
Thank you.
Have a good friend who works for SEMCO and knows what happened. SEMCO is in the distribution business, they do not generate any power.
A 203kv line from PEPCO came into one of their substations and actually melted one of it’s insulators. The line fell and hit one of the circuit breakers.
Thanks.....Sounds reasonable.
Tin Foil Hard Hat Off
Yes, and the top executives of the rapid response team were able to determine that pretty quickly (after an emergency, three-hour, high-level brainstorming session in their think tank), when they discovered that all their appliances and other plug-in electric/electronic gizmos were not functioning in the exact same way they were before the "lack of electrical current due to some kind of interruption" overtook them.
(And, furthermore, President B-O no longer was able to know what was going on in the world, as his TV was not working as it had in the past, and he could not blab about anything either, as his teleprompter was not working as it had in the past before the interruption transpired, telling him what to say.)
(By the way, remember these guys and this story about them praying at the Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. a while back?)
"UAE Designates Islamic Group That Hosted National Cathedral Prayers as Terrorist Organization" |
(I wonder how many of them carry an extra pair of wire cutters under their Muslim robes.)
Never seen an answer to that. I saw a photo of a crew
working on a transmission line.
bummer, I thought it was a way to halt the hackers from getting anymore info.
Well, there goes my ISIS conspiracy theory.
Martin, it is an imperfect world. Sometimes bolts fall out.
Truly.
Besides, this didn’t last long, did it? I left the area just as it happened, in fact.
If they got the power up that fast, it wasn’t that big a deal.
Give it a rest, tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists.
How would that be? Most of our power is nuclear. Thank God.
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