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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
Posted on 11/02/2013 5:49:37 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanblackout; communisttakeover; dsj02; electricoutage; empdrill; gridexii; janetnapolitano; nationalblackout; nov2013; powergrid
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To: MestaMachine
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11/04/2013 8:20:15 AM PST
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no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: MestaMachine
This is being set up to create an “emergency” in which evidence linking 0bama to the MB can be made to disappear or be deflected..
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11/04/2013 9:00:30 AM PST
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sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Yosemitest
I’m west of the Mississippi, which can be clearly seen in your lights photo...
but it’s still too “bright” where I live.
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11/04/2013 9:01:59 AM PST
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MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Marcella
The film was ok in the beginning, but then they cut to a scene of 0-drones with “yes we can” signs and then stated that if land the size of Utah was appropriated for the world, solar power could transform 3rd world countries into the third world. At the end, we have an appeal for a utopian global solar energy effort. The narrator’s voice was way to effeminate and no doubt, it was that of some estrogenized indoctrinated lefty.
I think solar energy is a concept better left to the free market. Decentralization and competition is better for political systems as well as energy systems.
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11/04/2013 7:48:34 PM PST
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grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
To: DesertRhino; KentuckyTim; Jane Long
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11/09/2013 10:26:05 PM PST
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Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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