[Yosemitest]

With over 26 years of military experience, I've heard it said, many times , by many high ranking officers, pillots mostly, that:

Drills are notoriously the perfect cover for false flag ops

Here are some links with additional information:

• As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow, The New York Times, August 16, 2013
  
  
• GridEx II / GridSecCon Update / Grid Security Exercise / Grid Security Conference 2013, March 6, 2013 (pdf)
  
  
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  NASA Alert America Blackout & Grid Shutdown 2013, Sep 19, 2013
  
  
• US Gov’t Will Conduct Power Grid Down Drill November 13-14, 2013, posted Oct 03, 2013
  
  
• US electrical grid on the edge of failure, 25 August 2013
  
  
• Background and History of the US Power Grid
  
  
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  Outgoing DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano Warns of ‘Serious’ Cyber Attack, Unprecedented Natural Disaster, Aug 27, 2013
  
  
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  Power Grid Down Drill To Be Conducted By US Government, August 28, 2013
  
  
  

[knarf]

So they ARE promoting the scare .... interesting.

This'll buy, what ? ... 10 days ?

Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip .....

[SC_Pete]

But wait! I thought preppers were insane, extreme, rightwing, unhinged, RELIGIOUS, black helicopter-fearing, Neanderthals.

Now the Obama Administration is telling me they were right all along?

[Yosemitest]

Ping.

American Blackout 2013 National Geographic ( 1:27:44 )

[GailA]

have these idiots alerted all the Ham Radio operators yet? they are the last ones still on the air after a natural disaster, as their rigs are portable. Hubby is on the Ham Alert team for our area, and they have not been notified.

[Vermont Lt]

And...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Folks have been warning about EMPs for years. Could it be that they are finally trying to figure out how it will affect us?

I am no fan of the government, but we damn them because they do not prepare for things, and then we damn them for preparing for things.

It is important to be prepared for any emergency, natural or otherwise. In this case, there is nothing you or I can do about it.

[meyer]

I hate to be the bearer of dissonance but we have blackout drills once or twice a year in the power industry. Not just a couple of small local utilities - everybody gets involved.

As for what the government should do, I recommend getting the heck out of the way so that the utilities can restore what’s left of their power systems and start rebuilding what is damaged.

[JRandomFreeper]

There is nothing that government involvment can't make worse.

/johnny

[rfreedom4u]

I have no doubts that a blackout will be bad. Most likely VERY bad.

BUT i don’t think anyone has factored in that many Americans outside the blackout area will bring supplies to those inside the black out area. The government is not capable of handling something this big and people will take matters into their own hands. I do predict that “in the interest of safety” the gov’t will try to stop people from taking things in though.

[MestaMachine]

Thank you for posting this ...again....because I had just woken up and my eyes were still half closed when I saw the first one and when I tried to get back to it, it was gone. Thought maybe I had dreamed it or something.

The morsi trial which might become very explosive and seal obama's fate begins this Monday in Egypt. The preliminary days will be filled with violence fomented by the brotherhood, but the meat of the trial will be coming right around the time of gridex II.

I really don't know how far obama and his handlers would go to prevent his ouster, but I simply do not trust my government anymore.

This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Our enemies will wait until we are all dependent on electric transportation before they knock out our grid.

[Travis McGee]

This is what it might be like, three years after power is lost. One week after, the cities will be in total chaos and on fire. And it goes downhill from there.

Alas, Brave New Babylon

(link to the Free Republic thread)

[Rocky]

Hope this goes better than the Healthcare.gov test.

[ToastedHead]

Chernobyl was a drill.

[GOPJ]

My concern is there’s too many ‘people of action’ and not enough ‘people of thought’... Is this drill primarily to deal with ‘citizen control’ rather than ways to restart the grid?

[GOPJ]

Here's the solution - bring in the Walmart supply chain management people. And ask them how to make things work until the grid is up again. Walmart got trucks and food into NO after Katrina - while the 'old so trained' people of federal, state, and local sat on their hands not knowing how to get the pump primed.

If we leave it up to government they'll come up with solutions similar to the ObamaCare websites.

[The Mayor]

That’s why I have been working with EMPact America, this is a serious threat.

[grumpygresh]

As the grid goes down, fires will be a growing risk. Fires for cooking, fires for heat, and fire used as a weapon. Better get more more extinguishers, I have to be my own fire dept.

[Jane Long]

Bookmark.

[NELSON111]

BFL

[MrB]

I’m west of the Mississippi, which can be clearly seen in your lights photo...

but it’s still too “bright” where I live.