New Madris Fault bicentennial quake? Saw FEMA looking for alternative suppliers of energy to TX, AL, GA, SC, and NC, as well. Out to NC? I thought that was crazy. Then it dawned on me.... they are concerned that a NMZE would wack the Eastern Interconnect. No power, no central communications, no refrigeration, no working pumps, ...etc.
Remember, we Texans who are ‘independent of the grid!’ had to buy juice from Mexico while we were blacking out all over the state a few weeks ago, to tremendous frozen pipe damage.
The Texas Interconnect being self-sufficient isn’t true anymore.
So you think it might just be part of this exercise:
National Level Exercise 2011
May 16-20, 2011
http://www.ready.gov/nle2011/index.html
http://www.cusec.org
http://www.shakeout.org/centralus/index.html
The purpose of National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011) is to prepare and coordinate a multiple-jurisdictional integrated response to a national catastrophic event – specifically a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).