It took the full resources of PG&E 27 days just to fix just this one station.
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Posted on 02/10/2014 7:23:28 AM PST by Travis McGee
Electricity supports not just our comfort but also the necessities of life. Without electricity, America could not come close to supporting its current population.
Electricity and its benefits has been with us for so long that we tend to take it for granted. That is a mistake. What if the grid were to go down nationally for a week, for months? Imagine what life would be like. The economic damage would be incalculable and in more places than I care to think the social fabric could literally be rent apart.
Commonly discussed concerns about the safety of our electrical grid usually center on relatively high-tech attacks like an electromagnetic pulse from an ionospheric nuclear blast or hackers taking down the control systems of power-generating stations or the transmission infrastructure. But what about low-tech options that are much more available to terrorists or foreign enemy governments? These would be actual physical attacks on our electrical infrastructure.
Consider the Metcalf Incident. This involved a sophisticated sniper attack on a Pacific Gas & Electric Company's power station in Metcalf, California in the early morning hours of last April 16.
The description of the Metcalf attack is chilling. The attackers apparently first slipped into an underground vault and expertly severed six AT&T fiber optic telecommunication lines in a way that would make repair difficult. The lid over this vault was so heavy that it would take at least two people to lift it. Then, a half hour later, the snipers began firing at the power station, destroying 17 giant transformers and six circuit breakers.
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In a sane country, this commando-style electrical station attack would be leading the news.
In my opinion, this was a “probe” or a test.
But we are no longer a sane country, not when, for example, a homosexual football player is the lead story.
It took the full resources of PG&E 27 days just to fix just this one station.
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Did it interfere with American Idol or The Game?
Then who cares?
All you would need is a bullet proof wall around the transformers. Not that complicated, but power companies are as lethargic as the government.
You don’t need to attack the stations.
A reasonably-skilled person with a rifle can take-out the insulators on long-distance high-voltage transmission lines “from afar”.
There are a lot of power generation, power distribution, and transportation targets if someone wanted to exploit them.
With your talent as a fiction author, I am sure you have imagined some of them.
I see a lot of things in the news that make me wonder...
Just another reason I prepare. Zero is letting in anti-American terrorists.
Well that AND something to shield from EMP strikes!
vandalism my arse
that’s clearly a probe in preparation for the real thing
Part of the plan to transform America as we knew it.
The shutting of coal plants is also right on schedule.
They’re already here!
UP...
We are required, by law, to have health insurance. But the power companies are not required, by law, to protect the power grid. GOOD ONE
More importantly, did it interfere with BOB's golf game? Or his hoops games? Or party night with Moochele and the kiddies??
If not, "what difference does it make?"
“...“from afar”....”
IMHO, the reason they didn’t do it from afar is because it was like saying “We are in your face, and you can’t do a damned thing about it... and your boy in DC won’t, either.”
It’s them being snotty and arrogant and sending a message.
On how many thousands of sub-stations?
At how many billions of dollars?
All of which you will pay for...
The tactical and strategic possibilities regarding this kind of this action were discussed long ago in Total Resistance, the Swiss guide to living under and resisting invaders.
Great recent discussion here as well.
http://weaponsman.com/?p=13598
That book was actually a textbook for the “Unconventional Warfare” class the Political Science department taught where I went to college.
I didn’t take the class, but I did buy the book.
Bioterrorism with the "racoon roundworm" eggs.
Avian flu weaponized
Iraqi blackpox release
A hundred Al Queda in 50-100 truck bombs blowing railroad bridges across the Mississippi River.
A hundred Al-Queda, 2 man teams in each state, going through the mall and shooting at Christmastime.
Al queda with a half dozen MANPADS at regional airports during Thanksgiving/XMAS (this has become a VERY real threat after Benghazi-its only a matter of time we lose a domestic flight to a MANPAD in CONUS).
and of course....attacks on our electrial grids.
Be prepared. Pinging Kart.
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