Posted on 12/07/2022 4:22:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
Every single day our electrical grid remains vulnerable, we are in grave danger.
Almost 50,000 Duke Power customers in Moore County, N.C. were left in the dark on Sunday night in what has been called a domestic act of terrorism. A curfew is running from 9 P.M. to 5 A.M. as schools close and crime spikes. Most customers remain without heat, refrigeration, and water.
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said, "We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment and so we do want citizens of the town to be prepared that this will be a multiday restoration for most customers, extending potentially as long as Thursday."
Two power stations were targeted by direct gunfire.
The attackers knew "exactly what they were doing," said Moore County, N.C. sherriff Ronnie Fields. "It was a gate, and they went through the gate, got at the substation, and shot it as well. ... It wasn't random."
While the liberal media immediately started blaming "right-wing militants" because of a nearby gay pride march that afternoon, the broader implications of the attack have been largely ignored: our power grid is completely vulnerable to anyone with a gun and the knowledge of where to shoot.
Grid News reports that there are more than 55,000 such power stations throughout the country, and "[t]here were 70 reports of emergency electric incidents and disturbances caused by suspected physical attacks, sabotage or vandalism from January to August 2022, Grid's analysis of the most recently available data from the Department of Energy found. That figure represents a 75 percent increase from 40 such reports in all of 2015[.]"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
https://vocal.media/theSwamp/this-fictional-memo-to-the-president-from-1989-predicted-terrorism-in-the-us
That it. Thanks again!
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I think that fellow got it wrong, he was being generious.. More then likely it will be like The Dominican Republic, or maybe even Haiti... (spit)
Entirely correct about SCADA. I work in Telecom and wrote many papers on the subject. Utilities use the Internet to monitor their facilities. These can be easily hacked. There is a simple way to avoid this. Either install dedicated T1 lines to each site, or install dial back modems at each site. If T1 is used, hackers would have to physically tap in. If dial back modems are used, hackers would have to somehow spoof the dial back telephone numbers. Makes it difficult to hack either way.
Hmmm... That should have been “He was being generous.”
On the other hand, some patriotic citizen might read this article or our comments and write a letter to his congressman about hardening our infrastructure.
But the bigger argument is no power utility or parts supplier is ready to spend gazillions on supplying and hardening up power stations while the Dims are consistently saying even electricity is eeeeevvvviiiilll and must be banned. Think about all the power utilities that spend literally billions of dollars shutting down coal plants and shifting power production to "clean burning" natural gas fueled power plants ... only for the government to now make natural gas too expensive to use and try to ban it as well.
In the software industry a joke we tell is that designing to spec is like walking on water: both are easy as long as they're frozen. The government keeps changing the "spec" on what's allowed and not allowed in energy production/transformation and every time they do it it costs the utilities (and the consumers) billions. So power companies can't afford to just invest willy nilly into safeguarding a future that the government can't let them stop long enough to define anyway.
>>>>> “while the Dims are consistently saying even electricity is eeeeevvvviiiilll and must be banned. Think about all the power utilities that spend literally billions of dollars shutting down coal plants and shifting power production to “clean burning” natural gas fueled power plants ... only for the government to now make natural gas too expensive to use and try to ban it as well.” <<<<<
This might not seem related, but I think it is. This is all malfeasance, not misfeasance. It’s sabotage. It’s deliberate....even if a lot of mid-wit useful idiots are sincerely “trying to save the planet.”
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A global famine is coming, so buckle up. Now is the time to prepare.
The same people behind the Covid “pandemic” and mRNA death-jab, are behind wrecking global food production, wrecking global POL production, wrecking global transportation, etc.
It’s a de-population move. It’s all part of the same scenario, directly related to the “Dutch” (WEF) govt closing 3,000 farms to build a mega-city for 3rd world immigrants, to Canada and Germany banning nitrogen fertilizer, which will cut food production by half or more.
I use the 2004 Indonesian tsunami as an analogy. The waves were formed in the deep offshore ocean by an earthquake. The coastal areas wrecked by tsunami waves were doomed from the moment of the earthquake. Even when the horizon looked clear and the ocean smooth, the tsunamis were on their way, and unstoppable.
That is the coming global famine. It can’t be averted at this point. It’s on the way, just like those tsunami waves. Some areas will be worse affected, some less. It will be a multi-year process. There will be no quick fix, no government solution. Millions will starve, millions will move, wars and civil wars will be spun off.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/
WEF Adviser Yuval Harari: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ in Today’s World
Yuval Noah Harari, historian, futurist, and World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser, said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population” in the early 21st century given modern technologies’ rendering human labor economically and militarily “redundant.”
[Much more at link. We are just unwanted ants at their picnic.]
DUH!!!!
This simply was a test by our terrorist enemies living in our borders (and here because of open borders) to show how easily they can destroy our electrical grid.
AND how difficult it is to repair their damage. Large transformers are not stocked or manufactured in large numbers. A nation-wide mass attack on our sub-stations would not only cripple us - it will keep us crippled for a long time as the supply of large high-voltage transformers is depleted. Manufacturing them takes a LONG TIME.
Perhaps the largest area of vulnerability our nation has.
Second only to voting fraud.
BTW - I’m an EE.
I thought this would be widespread after the fraud\coup.
And the people they want left alive are either people who are part of their clique, or people they think they can control.
I figure half the population would be dead in 30 days.
Whoever pulls the plug will be the worlds largest mass murderer in the history of the world.
That’s probably why the God fearing right would never do it.
Pick any random zip code in America and play this thought experiment:
Food deliveries from outside become sporadic, then in a few months, they stop, 100%.
How many people in that zip code will be alive in one year, if they can only eat the food that they have stored in advance and/or grown from the ground, from seeds, in that area?
An apartment zip code in a city? 95-100% mortality, I think.
Typical suburbs, with some land around each house, factoring in looters and robbers from the cities? Probably 75-90%. It takes too long to learn to grow enough food to survive, and anything edible will be nearly impossible to protect from animal and human scavengers.
Best-case mixed-rural, with ground water, rain and arable land? Hard to say. Still probably 50%. You don’t just throw your “survival seeds” into the ground and start eating next week. It’s a multi-year learning curve, but most will die of starvation in a month.
Plus, people will die from the bad water, disease and banditry that always accompany the social breakdown caused by famine.
Yuval Harari sealed his own fate when he said that Jesus Christ was “fake news.”
I hope he really likes warm weather.
Personal power generating and power back up & storage companies will do well in the upcoming years. Not to mention things like wood burning stoves in the colder climes.
“ This is why it’s so important to build a high-trust civilization, and so dangerous to wreck it, as the Rats have done.”
That’s the issue I have been thinking quite about.
It’s pretty much the root of every current problem we have today.
Any disagreement is pretty much met with fanatical opposition now.
Instead as in previous years, “we have different opinions but are still neighbors”.
Yes, you are right about substations and the transformers they use. I am an EE too, just never worked in the power industry. But my father did, and I got lots of private tours as a kid.
“”We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment and so we do want citizens of the town to be prepared that this will be a multiday restoration for most customers, extending potentially as long as Thursday.”
Ukraine regularly gets its power grid hit 50 to 100 times, simultaneously, and is able to restore most of it in 12 hours.
If these clowns are taking 5 days (or more) for one little substation, there’s something more going on...
Is this a physical (space) issue? Or is it because every transformer has to be "matched" with a specific generator?
Exactly. Human assets would be needed to harden these sites.
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