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Who’s Attacking Our Power Grid?
National Review ^ | 27 Dec, 2022 | JIM GERAGHTY

Posted on 12/28/2022 5:12:11 AM PST by MtnClimber

On the menu today: I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears someone is attacking the electrical power grid of the Seattle area, which comes after a series of similar incidents elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest as well as in Florida. And the FBI never caught the guy who attacked the electrical grid down in North Carolina earlier this month. Shooting up a power substation is apparently the latest fad.

Electric Boogaloo

Picture it: It’s Christmas, you’re about to prepare a big meal for the whole family, and the power goes out — all the lights, the refrigerator, your computer and cellphone charger, the works. That happened this year for a lot of families in the Seattle area, but it wasn’t wind, snow, or bad weather; someone shot up their local power substation.

The initial Pierce County Sheriff’s Department public statement was . . . curious:

Today at 05:26 am we received a call of a burglary to the Tacoma Public Utilities Substation at 22312 46th Ave E.

Deputies arrived on scene and saw there was forced entry into the fenced area. Nothing had been taken from the substation, but the suspect vandalized the equipment causing a power outage in the area.

Deputies were notified of a second burglary to the TPU substation at 8820 224th St E which also had forced entry with damage to the equipment. Nothing was taken from this site either.

At 11:25 we were notified by Puget Sound Energy that they too had a power outage this morning at 02:39 am. Deputies are currently on scene at this facility where the fenced area was broken into and the equipment vandalized.

At this time deputies are conducting the initial investigation. We do not have any suspects...

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KEYWORDS: antifa; greenenergy; jimgeraghty; nationalreview
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To: MtnClimber

I hope other substations are getting security cameras installed & maybe some great, big dogs. Security does seem awfully lax at these places.


21 posted on 12/28/2022 5:36:24 AM PST by Twotone
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To: srmanuel
A few hundred people scattered across the country who all at once started blowing things up including themselves, if necessary, would create a situation similar to 9/11 except it would be all over the country.

Just the kind of crisis that a power hungry cabal bent on the fundamental transformation of the United States would love to not go to waste.

22 posted on 12/28/2022 5:36:51 AM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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Yep life is a bitch. May as well lie down, enjoy it as best
you can. The world is ever changing and has been since
time began. It will keep changing for those occupying it.
jmo


23 posted on 12/28/2022 5:38:53 AM PST by deport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_electiYou)
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To: MtnClimber

Obviously stochastic terry wrist and his band of anti power troops.


24 posted on 12/28/2022 5:39:40 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. I agree.


25 posted on 12/28/2022 5:40:22 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: MtnClimber
Some creep who shoulda got the crap beat out of him daily in h.s. But the bullies were all banned from schools. so now theres no checks and balances for sick/ abnormal behaviors in schools these days.

So they are angry at the world instead of being mad at the h.s. bully.

This is what happens when everyone is allowed to " be whomever they want to be.

its incels

26 posted on 12/28/2022 5:40:55 AM PST by Ikeon (work is the dirtiest 4 letter word you can say to someone under 40. )
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To: dforest

They have never been able to “figure out” who planted those “explosives” in DC because they planted them, IMO.


27 posted on 12/28/2022 5:41:43 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: MtnClimber

False flag to justify further intrusions on our rights.


28 posted on 12/28/2022 5:42:08 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: MtnClimber

ELF, Earth Liberation Front....................


29 posted on 12/28/2022 5:42:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: mewzilla
It’s Deep State. Always the ultimate answer. They have many soldiers.


30 posted on 12/28/2022 5:42:50 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: z3n

We have decades of work on our electrical infrastructure in “the pipeline”.

Tons of work, unrealistic timelines and goals, undermanned and old...


31 posted on 12/28/2022 5:46:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

insane enviroweenies


32 posted on 12/28/2022 5:48:43 AM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: MtnClimber

ANTIFA?


33 posted on 12/28/2022 5:50:37 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CodeJockey

The Dims are stupid in their tactics. They’re sending their goons to mess up power stations before they’re done making the masses switch to driving EV’s.


34 posted on 12/28/2022 5:52:38 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CodeJockey

It’s Obama and his green energy policies to shutter coal plants. In Tennessee and elsewhere in the South, gone are the days when TVA have back up capacity to keep up on demand in extreme cold/heat events. Reliance on solar/wind is now the goal


35 posted on 12/28/2022 5:55:57 AM PST by RedMonqey
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To: odawg

“these embedded terrorists”

One of the stories to come out of the Buffalo Blizzard was the looting at a Family Dollar store on the East side.
However, there was also a video on Rumble filmed in Lackawanna on the south side of the city where the local Arab community was defending THEIR business from potential looters by firing guns in the air.

I love a Happy ending to a story around the holidays.


36 posted on 12/28/2022 5:58:08 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: MtnClimber

Russians.


37 posted on 12/28/2022 6:00:21 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: EEGator; z3n; dforest
But they seem rather ineffective so far at creating any massive outages, so Russian’s or whomever, they have failed.

Which means it’s not Russia.

With just a little study and twenty men I could knock out an entire state’s electric grid for months.

Our electric grid is very fragile.

The big transformers are vulnerable targets and have long lead times to replace.

The Inter-state grid interconnections sit out in the open and breakers can be taken out with a rifle.

If Russia wanted to take down our grid it would be down.

38 posted on 12/28/2022 6:01:34 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
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To: MtnClimber
If I had to guess I would say this is green energy leftists protesting our current energy system, but I think that there will be an effort to pin this on conservatives.

Bingo. I think global warming scum bags, might be part of it too.

39 posted on 12/28/2022 6:02:21 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: rlmorel

I know, it is so obvious. No one in our lying foul government even mentions it.


40 posted on 12/28/2022 6:05:34 AM PST by dforest
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