Posted on 07/14/2019 4:38:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Just about three weeks ago, I did a piece headlined: “Will You Survive the Coming Blackout?”
On the heels of this weekend’s mini-blackout in New York City, this is not about “See, I told you so!” but is about reminding people that a large and sustained blackout could and would cripple much of society as we know it – and it could and would have a devastating impact upon our very lives, and survival.
Such a blackout is coming. It is only a matter of time.
Again, leaving aside the growing threats of cyber and terrorist attacks upon our power grid, the fact of the matter is that much of our grid is antiquated junk desperately in need of billions of dollars in repair. Antiquated infrastructure which unfortunately, is connected to other outdated infrastructure.
Sometimes, the slighted bump to our ancient electrical power infrastructure triggers a chain reaction power loss which spreads in seconds and leaves millions of people literally in the dark and much worse.
In 2003, a tree branch fell on a power line in Ohio and, instantly, over 50 million people in the United States and Canada were hit with cascading blackouts.
A tree branch.
These weather-related events happen every single day in the United States and collectively cause multiple blackouts to our very old, very weak, and very vulnerable infrastructure.
The mini-blackout in New York City affected about 73,000 people. Because it hit parts of midtown Manhattan, some of the city’s top tourist attractions and hot-spots went dark. Including Madison Square Garden in the middle of a Jennifer Lopez concert.
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Yeah. We should have built more power plants and also nuclear. But noooo. We have transfer to a green economy. Then you’ll see blackouts. Permanently. These commies are gonna pay.
Food, water, alternate heat and cooking and the guns and ammo to defend same.
For Conservatives, an annoyance.
Upside, when they come to my door and demand I share...
If I stick a Peace Sign in my window, that will at least assure that power stays on for me.
Alaska’s grid is separate from the rest of the country and Canada, so we’ll still have power. Our problem will be the stoppage of all incoming supplies.
Numerous utility companies threw huge amounts of money down the “renewable energy” rat hole that would have been better spent on upgrading transmission and distribution infrastructure. We are going to see the fruits of the green energy folly soon.
Oh, BS.
My power went out for 18 hours last week because a distribution wire fell down to the ground. The outage affected approximately the same fraction of our city’s population as happened in NYC.
I was about to go buy a portable generator to run the refrigerator, but surveyed the distribution system again and saw that reconstructive efforts were being made.
Sure enough, power was back on within 2 hours.
Fake news. 0bama used his trillion dollars to fix all that.
I have a strange dilemma; I have several large totes of canned food. Most of it is several years old, but I have the opinion that canned goods that are in good condition are still safe to eat years after their expiration date. However, I have moved into a small “getting ready to retire” house with very limited storage. I’ve also had a major medical issue that, in a SHTF situation and I couldn’t get my meds I probably won’t live long enough to eat the food. Despite all this I just can’t bring myself to throw it away, and there’s really no other way to get rid of it,. I don’t regularly eat the food that I store and choose not to.
I have my natural gas line connected emergency generator and auto on and off synced to the grid on or offline. The grid goes down it comes on, the grid comes back on it goes off. No gasoline; just the natural gas line.
However, yes, there are some possible gaps in the reliability of the flow of natural gas. Some pumping, compression and control points along the pipeline do depend on electricity nearby and in some cases gasoline as a fuel in compression operations.
Some control and pumping operations in the pipeline system do draw directly on incoming natural gas that gets diverted to running the pumping or compression operations or as fuel for generators for electricity for operations, but that is not a universal attribute throughout the whole pipeline system. In my view it ought to be. The reliability of the system no matter what happens to the electric grid is worth the cost.
To those who are unprepared.
Some article way back said that to supply LA with all the electricity it needs using wind power, a wind farm the size of AZ would be needed. Just for LA.
I have only known one couple who regularly recycled their stored food, using it and replacing it with new goods each time they bought anything new that they had in their stored area already. It takes vigilance most do not have the patience for. Consequently I think most folks who are storing food for emergencies are storing most of it beyond its expiration dates, and they know it; leaving the real worry about it to time of the emergency.
New York is one of the states that is going 100% renewable energy, and doesn't even approve of natural gas lines being built. These "polar vortex" storms last a week or more, during which the solar and wind power generation will be zero. And it will last longer than any grid battery storage capacity will last. This is only a taste of what will become a regular part of life in New York, except it will happen in the coldest parts of the year.
So, blackouts aren't all bad.
Texas also has it's own power grid.
Unfortunately, the insanity of liberals has no boundaries. I pray for the good, normal people who are stuck in these liberal hellholes without the means to leave.
The bad news is that the Rats have shut down all the coal and nuclear plants around here...but the good news is we have plenty of windmills!
No wind, no TV Edith.
A smart guy said that.
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