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Actually it would be more than just a blackout if they took out the Water Intake Tunnels.

First, to do it would require a huge amount of explosives (And you are right they "PROBABLY" Don;t have the capability - or maybe they do have a suitcase nuke). So there would be massive devestation to the City of Niagara Falls.

Capability aside, Let's continue the "what if" game though. If they did succeed in taking out the intakes, The Moses Plant would be dead for months if not years. The largest power production plant in the NE, finished.

Sure, the blackout would probably only be a few days until things got rerouted and straightened out. BUT, you now have the largest power producer gone on an already overloaded, antiquated, wildly unstable power grid.

Is this type of attack likely? - no, possible? - probably not. But, if it did happen the initial social chaos would be tremendous, the economic impact would be huge, and with the power grid already teetering on collapse -- blackouts would become a daily if not hourly occurance.

You mean like the "social chaos" that followed the huge black out a few months ago?

Please have some faith in your fellow americans. These sand gnats don't have a prayer of ever doing anything significant in terms of a true threat to our nation or way of life.. and they know it.

They are throw backs full of jealous rage and nothing more... they don't have a grand scheme or a vision... they just have hate, and that's it.

They don't have the capacity to take out the power plants... neither in terms of firepower or frankly ability. Its chicken little doomsday nonsense. Should we work to prevent it from happening ? Sure, but its not the "end of the world" if it does.

The reality is simple folks, the terrorist can hurt us individually, but they don't have a prayer of destroying our nation or way of life.. Even if they managed a dirty nuke in the heart of manhatten, or say a small pox release there... and it killed 100,000 or even 1,000,000 people before it was contained... do you really think the United States of America, or the western way of life is going anywhere?

Be serious. They are a threat to us individually, yes, but they are not a threat in the least to our society... they don't have the capacity to be that, and they know it. THey prey on our fears, nothing more. They are bugs, and they will be squished under our heals... its really that simple.