Posted on 08/15/2016 9:04:51 AM PDT by bananaman22
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the companys computers to go offlineall of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.
Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Deltas court, saying that other Georgia Power customers were not affected, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.
Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go outeverywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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Most of the damage in an EMP comes from transmission of very high voltages and amperage from induced currents into long transmission lines. Damage in most homes and transmission equipment happens because they are connected to these lines.
Anything near the explosion could also suffer direct damage from the EMP but most of the US won't have to worry about that, long distance damage is greatly exaggerated in the press. I am connected to the grid but, I have had to place an overload device between me and the grid to protect the grid. It also protects me in the case of a spike which an EMP would cause on a grand scale. I do not anticipate any damage to my equipment or household goods because of the disconnect.
If there is ever any reason to believe that EMP is imminent then disconnect all you can except while using it. Turn off he main to your power panel and you will likely be unharmed and can then use your portable generator to make life more normal again. Make sure you keep plenty of gas on hand, it could be a long while before gasoline distribution gets back on line.
Didn’t obama fix that..and create 10’s of thousands of job to boot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX2sWHqzW88
Serious progress on those ideas will occur, the kickoff will be November 8, and groundwork in 2017.
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