As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow ( Nov 13-14, 2013)

The New York Times ^ | August 16, 2013 | MATTHEW L. WALD

[Yosemitest]

As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow


MATTHEW L. WALD, August 16, 2013

WASHINGTON — The electric grid, as government and private experts describe it, is the glass jaw of American industry. If an adversary lands a knockout blow, they fear, it could black out vast areas of the continent for weeks; interrupt supplies of water, gasoline, diesel fuel and fresh food; shut down communications; and create disruptions of a scale that was only hinted at by Hurricane Sandy and the attacks of Sept. 11.

This is why thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. antiterrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take down large sections of the power grid.

They will practice for a crisis unlike anything the real grid has ever seen, and more than 150 companies and organizations have signed up to participate.

“This is different from a hurricane that hits X, Y and Z counties in the Southeast and they have a loss of power for three or four days,” said the official in charge of the drill, Brian M. Harrell of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, known as NERC. “We really want to go beyond that.”

One goal of the drill, called GridEx II, is to explore how governments would react as the loss of the grid crippled the supply chain for everyday necessities.

[Yosemitest]

Never challenge WORSE !

[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)

[riri]

Bkmk

[Yosemitest]

Hybrid Solar Eclipse 3 Nov 2013 ( 4:28 )

SO ... How do you thing the stinking Muslims will "perceive" this "sign from the heavens" ?

[Yosemitest]

PROMISE OF OPPRESSION! :: Glenn Beck KLAXON "Obama Change" NOW Collapsing USA Into World Communism!! May 31, 2010 ( 9:54 )

[IMR 4350]

“I do predict that “in the interest of safety” the gov’t will try to stop people from taking things in though.”

It wont be a case of try, they will stop you.

The only way to get enough supplies into people over a large area is by truck and road.

They will shut the roads.

[MestaMachine]

It depends on what the clerics decide its meaning is...just like mohammed changed or made up new rules at his whim, and the followers will follow just as they always do.

[The Working Man]

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.

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There are times when I think the Government goes out of it’s way to ‘get in the way’. Sometimes it for ‘just because we can’ and other times it is to set a precedent so that the ‘next time’ they can make it worse if necessary.

[Whenifhow]

Thanks for posting the thread!
Another video
19 Minutes
Real American Blackout: Will GridEx II Protect Against It or Ensure It Happens?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPKeuZN__Q

[MestaMachine]

Then there are those of us who need oxygen to survive. I have emergency supplies that will only last about three days without electricity. It’s cost prohibitive for me to have more. And the cuffs that keep the blood circulating through my legs and feet. Clots are a huge danger and I fear a shut down, an actual shutdown, will kill many people like me who are already under the shadow of death with no way to compensate. Can’t afford a generator and no one I know has one either. It would be a mighty rough go.

[Yosemitest]

Some of us knew WHO Obama was, years ago.

Read INS DOC FOUND: U.S. CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO ONE EAST AFRICAN-BORN CHILD OF U.S. CITIZEN IN 1961!
The documents provided in that article are very damaging to Obama, and well worth your time.

Most of these early "supporters" of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF were party to the Communists "spooks".
There's a great volume of history you have to go through to understand this, and it goes back to about 1850.

Read these three articles on one of my earlier post:

Obama, the African Colonial
By L.E. Ikenga

PRAVDA: "THE AMERICAN DESCENT INTO MARXISM IS HAPPENING WITH BREATH TAKING SPEED"

Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)

Now go back and read The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals.

Are you getting the depth of this Fabian Society takeover?

Watch "Fabian Society" 1, then watch "Fabian Society" 2, and then watch "Fabian Society" 3.

It's deep, it's ugly, and most people WILL NOT ... CAN NOT ... accept the truth.

You've got to watch this 9 minute 38 second video.

History Of Christianity In The Middle East - TheBlazeTV - The Glenn Beck Program - 2013.08.19

The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF, HUSSEIN OF AMERICA, is doing this exact plan to US right now.
Obama is NOT Christian. He's MUSLIM.

Didn't our Heavenly Father, through our Savior tell us...

" thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother."

How well we deserve this curse God has given us, through the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF, the FASCIST Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama II IS a Muslim.
His actions prove it.
To believe Barack Hussein Obama II, when he claims to be a Christian, is to trust Satan.
Muslims are well know for lying about their faith.

MUSLIMS are allowed to LIE and deceive NON MUSLIMS, if it benefits or protects ISLAM.
Qur'an (16:106) - Establishes that there are circumstances that can "compel" a Muslim to tell a lie.

Qur'an (3:28) - This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to "guard themselves."

Qur'an (9:3) - "...Allah and His Messenger are free from liability to the idolaters..." The dissolution of oaths with the pagans who remained at Mecca following its capture. They did nothing wrong, but were evicted anyway.

Qur'an (40:28) - A man is introduced as a believer, but one who must "hide his faith" among those who are not believers.

Qur'an (2:225) - "Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts"

Qur'an (66:2) - "Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths"

Qur'an (3:54) - "And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers." The Arabic word used here for scheme (or plot) is makara, which literally means deceit. If Allah is deceitful toward unbelievers, then there is little basis for denying that Muslims are allowed to do the same. (See also 8:30 and 10:21)

Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be "compelled" to deceive others for a greater purpose.
Posted by Atheist

For a better understanding of the issue, read HISTORY of Mohammed ( spelled variously; Mahomet, Muhammed, Mehmet, etc. ).

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bkmk

[Califreak]

Me too.

[Rocky]

Hope this goes better than the Healthcare.gov test.

[Yosemitest]

Obama-Scare is working EXACTLY as they planned.
It's "COLLAPSING THE SYSTEM" !

[ToastedHead]

Chernobyl was a drill.

[dennisw]

They were well and truly effed carrying buckets of water for basic human needs around because there was no more electricity to do it for them. I can handle this camping out for a few decades but the women are going to be pissed off!!!

[Marcella]

“rumors of “drills” to exercise emergency actions in a nationwide blackout.”

It isn’t a rumor; it has been publicized for a long time. The drill is on Nov. 13,14 and includes the US, Canada, and Mexico.

[Marcella]

“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.”

When power is out, power companies can’t do anything about hospitals and food and water going away. This drill is composed of all those segments that would be in great difficulty and how various responders would function in those areas. This drill is going to show that millions of people are going to die as vital life and death provisions can’t be “fixed”.

When Ike came through here, our regional hospital should have been fine because they have generator backup. Well, the generator didn’t come on and those who could fix it were home with their families and couldn’t be contacted because the only phones working were old time phones that plug directly into the wall. Critical patients had to be driven to San Antonio, a five hour trip. Those left were in hospital rooms with no light and it was hot. No surgeries could be performed.

If power is off over the country for two weeks, there is no place to transport patients to a working hospital because none will have power. Neither will hospitals get medical supplies. People on life support will die. Patients and every person who takes important medicine will also die.

If these drills lead to anything that can help this type emergency situation, they are worthwhile.

[musicman]

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