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Atlanta Airport Blackout Sends Message to Terrorists: America Is Unprepared [vanity]
Daily Beast ^ | 12/17/2017 | CLIVE IRVING

Posted on 12/18/2017 6:13:38 AM PST by logi_cal869

If a terrorist wanted to find the most vulnerable point in America’s 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 world’s busiest, went dark. Thousands of flights were disrupted. For many hours nobody in authority attempted to explain—or even seemed able to explain—what 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.


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KEYWORDS: airportsecurity; atl; fakenews; poweroutage
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To: logi_cal869

Why don’t we wait for Trump’s first budget???


41 posted on 12/18/2017 10:12:54 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: logi_cal869

I’m more interested in how this fire started

It took several hours to out the fire out. Took many hours to restor service


42 posted on 12/18/2017 10:14:43 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Exactly.


43 posted on 12/18/2017 10:35:20 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Nifster

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.


44 posted on 12/18/2017 10:38:39 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Jane Long

Yep.

Lesson learned - trust me.


45 posted on 12/19/2017 10:25:31 AM PST by DBG8489
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To: logi_cal869

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


46 posted on 12/25/2017 2:10:04 AM PST by LaDivaLoca (There can be no triumph w/o loss, no victory w/o suffering, no freedom w/o sacrifice. THANK U TROOPS)
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To: logi_cal869

Here is another one and Q Anon is supposed to be one of the good guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Tsbq9SAJg


47 posted on 12/25/2017 2:16:59 AM PST by LaDivaLoca (There can be no triumph w/o loss, no victory w/o suffering, no freedom w/o sacrifice. THANK U TROOPS)
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