Should have added that the videos said FEMA and DHS’s catastrophic preparations were all supposed to be done by Oct 1st. Is there something fiscally significant about Oct 1? The shut-down began on Oct 1st, but was there something that triggered it to be then? Ending of the CR funding of the government? When were the orders for those preparations made? Presumably during the sequester when they supposedly didn’t have enough money to do what they thought necessary... Did they make similar preparations for other places?
Anybody remember when the Chinese showed a contingency plan to nuke American cities?
I remember the Nork map that showed the detonation of 3 nuke/emp devices over the US in such a pattern as to disable much if not most of our electrical grid. It matters not if those blasts would get every single coffeemaker. What matters is how many big ‘step down’ transformers got fried. Fry a few of those, that are made with a 18 month lead time in China, and you lose much of the grid for at least that long.
Interestingly enough, the one ‘scheduled’ for the central US was at a much lower latitude than the ones on the eastern and western seaboards. Presumably to ‘spare’ the shale operations in the dakotas and canada from disruption.
YMMV.
Isn’t Oct 1 the end of the previous Fiscal Year?
However, I have previously read that the slush funds for all Agencies, Departments and Directorates were moved into place during the TARP and other stimulus processes a long time ago to avoid needing Congressional approvals for funding.
Oct 1 is the first day of the new fiscal year.