Posted on 12/18/2017 6:13:38 AM PST by logi_cal869
If a terrorist wanted to find the most vulnerable point in Americas airport network they could not have hoped for a better guide than what just happened at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson.
Just after 1 p.m. Sunday the whole airport, the worlds busiest, went dark. Thousands of flights were disrupted. For many hours nobody in authority attempted to explainor even seemed able to explainwhat had happened.
Just imagine this is a classic plan for phase one of a terrorist attack: Render the target blind. None of the defenses are operational. Thousands of people are trapped in restricted space without directions about how they can find an exit.
As chaos spreads nobody knows who turn to for information. The communications blackout is as complete as the power blackout.
Why dont we wait for Trumps first budget???
Im more interested in how this fire started
It took several hours to out the fire out. Took many hours to restor service
Exactly.
Iirc, the fire wad in an underground vault. I understand why they do such things in NYC, buy not in GA.
An underground vault should have halon to limit damage, but this is the same utility which touts its ability to design backup power systems (see link). So go figure that they weren’t prepared for a fire. The lack of emergency lighting at the airport was appalling as well.
Yep.
Lesson learned - trust me.
Been watching videos in Youtube and they have a lot that covers this topic. This is one of them as to why there was a blackout at the airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wQM-wK8w0&t=117s
Here is another one and Q Anon is supposed to be one of the good guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Tsbq9SAJg
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