Posted on 12/03/2022 9:55:40 PM PST by ameribbean expat
The Moore County Sheriff’s Office says is investigating incidents at multiple electric substations in Moore County that were shot up on Saturday night as a “criminal occurrence,” causing more than half the county’s
Workers from Duke Energy and authorities from the sheriff‘s office were at the substation off N.C. 211 near West Pine Middle School looking over the damage around midnight. Deputies were scanning the the area for bullet casings and other evidence, and vehicles were going through the woods in search of more evidence at the scene.
In a text message to a reporter, Chief Mike Cameron of the Southern Pines Fire and Rescue Department confirmed that substations had been shot at. He said the agency is “preparing to be out of power for 24 hours.”
Heavy police presence was around several gun shops and Wal-Mart in Aberdeen around 10:30 p.m. after reports of looting. One woman was detained in front Wal-Mart and police were conducting a headcount of employees outside of the store.
Data from the website poweroutage.us showed that more than 40,600 local electric customers, or about 63.7 percent of the county's customers, were without power was of 10:30 p.m. About 38,000 of those customers are Duke Energy subscribers.
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No, actually I wasn’t inferring anything.
That’s why I made a statement letting folks know that wasn’t
my intent.
There are angry violent people out there. I don’t see the
Amish as that type of people, and that was the only context
here.
It happens. You hear about people throwing a piece of rebar in a power substation. Take out a neighborhood’s power. Maybe loot.
Duke Power indicates North Carolina.
As does “NC 211”
Perhaps of interest.
And that is how easy the grid can stop working. Preppers ping.
In NC, the Sherriff’s are generally local men and women. They tend to be a lot more conservative.
The local police, and state cops, not so much. This is especially true around Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte. Lots of northern transplants, though my experience so far is those transplants are here to get away from looney leftwing government.
Infrastructure like this is vary unprotected in this country.
The powers to be do not want to spend the money necessary to protect it.
Most are in denial that it will happen.
I thank you for this. I’ve had a TV stuck in the Fayetteville Fed Ex center for days. After further research I discovered that they can’t use the shootings as an excuse. Those incidents are the next county over from Fayetteville.
It happens more than you know but the MSM mutes the stories quickly and you don’t hear of many arrests because the shooters just melt away.
I worry that though that others watching may eventually start plunking away at towers and substations forcing a major “protective” response by national guard or our military forces. A major effort by several thousand people across the njation could do tremendous damage; you won’t need some fabled emp. Terrorist insurgents at just the right spots could do it.
There is a cost to everything, including protection. And at what level would you want this protection? Guards at every substation? Multiple redundancy and duplication of systems?
I don't know that the customers would want their cost per KWH to double or more to achieve maybe 20% reduced risk to multi-contingency disasters. Though they seem more than willing to blow their monthly budget on pie-in-the-sky wind and solar schemes.
Shooting at insulators on towers has been a great American past-time for decades. Not recommended activity, but it happens all the time. Usually in very rural areas, of course. Seldom does a chipped insulator cause any issues on its own. And seldom does shooting an insulator do more than chip one or two of the "skirts" on the insulator.
Now granted, those "skirts" (the individual cupped porcelain or other bell-shaped pieces of an insulator) do serve a purpose and that is to prevent dirt buildup on the surface that will eventually track and conduct electricity, which results in a line tripping. They are built to let the rain wash off the surface, and not provide a continuous surface from the top of the insulator to the bottom, so that any dirt buildup will not provide a solid path from the wire to the steel structure of the tower.
Workers from Duke Energy and authorities from the sheriff‘s office were at the substation off N.C. 211
Thanks.
Thanks.
maybe the million migrant ‘got-aways’ are involved..
More information, including a possible substation address...
https://apnews.com/article/vandalism-north-carolina-power-outages-47614e4786ca0fb000be779d27f3995a
Without saying too much, this seems like a pretty likely location for the root cause of the major outages.
Another article - more than one station was attacked. FBI on the job (which means they’ll try to blame Trump)...
My perception until a friend here in Louisiana described the elaborate and intensive DHS/FBI ‘Domestic Terrorism’ training given to parish and town police. Very sophisticated instruction complete with videos and fancy handouts that gradually build up from discussion of ‘permitted dissent’ to linking all pro life groups, pro-Second Amendment partisans and heritage groups such as the SCV to neo-Nazis, what is left of the KKK, and the dread ‘survivalists’ Most of the program seems to be produced by the SPLC, Cops who raise objections are given the same treatment that people who call BS on the ‘systemic racist’ hustlers are given. This sort of brainwashing is part of the DOJ requirement to get fed law enforcement program bucks. The brainwashing sessions occur several times a year to provide ‘new information’ on how straight, religious, conservative white people are likely to be part of the ‘white supremacist’ menace. People can be talked into believing this stuff if it is endlessly repeated. That is the goal the DOJ has for local cops.
attacks like this on public infrastructure should bring automatic death sentences ...
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