Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Oakland goes dark as fire rips through California power substation following a series of targeted attacks on across US: Flights are grounded and 50,000 residents are plunged into darkness as officials launch investigation
Daily Mail ^ | 2/19/23 | Hope Sloop

Posted on 02/19/2023 9:15:03 PM PST by CFW

A major power outage caused by a fire at an electrical substation shut down the Oakland Airport in Northern California Sunday evening.

More than 50,000 customers in the Bay Area were impacted and flights out of the area were halted after a fire broke out at a Pacific Gas and Electric substation around 1pm.

Photos and videos posted on social media show stranded passengers at the airport waiting at their gates and to get through security which was shut down for hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 202302; airport; arson; calif; california; electricity; oakland; outage; poweroutage; sabotage; substation; substations
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-130 next last
Another substation outage.
1 posted on 02/19/2023 9:15:03 PM PST by CFW
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: CFW

Airports have no backup generation?


2 posted on 02/19/2023 9:16:26 PM PST by Paladin2 (0%?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW

How will the EVs get recharged?


3 posted on 02/19/2023 9:16:53 PM PST by Brian Griffin (una vez)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW

String Newsome up....


4 posted on 02/19/2023 9:20:01 PM PST by Paladin2 (0%?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW

What a sh!t show.

I worked a couple of miles from that airport, on Catalina St. in San Leandro in 2016-early 2017. So glad to be gone from there.


5 posted on 02/19/2023 9:20:33 PM PST by Allegra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW

This nation is under attack by either Chinese or Russian saboteurs. Too many ‘’coincidences’’ of attacks on food processing plants, egg farms, wild fires, attacks on power grids and Chinese reconnaissances balloon flights.


6 posted on 02/19/2023 9:22:44 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW

.


7 posted on 02/19/2023 9:23:40 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW
When idiots heads are filled with unimaginably stupid global warming propaganda this is the type of reaction that results. I hope the deacons of this new religion are proud of what they have wrought.

Why objectivity and honesty, not politics, must drive science - Washington  Times

8 posted on 02/19/2023 9:23:42 PM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jmacusa

I think the power substation fires may be eco-terrorists.


9 posted on 02/19/2023 9:26:00 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: CFW

10 posted on 02/19/2023 9:26:26 PM PST by LukeL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CFW

Sounds very similar to the Metcalf Substation attack, San Jose 2013. also a PG&E Substation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

That one was caught on surveillance video.


11 posted on 02/19/2023 9:27:20 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Brian Griffin

No EVs charging?

Oh, the humanity.😭


12 posted on 02/19/2023 9:28:54 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloSinud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: buwaya

Just think! Now Newsom can sue PG&E for the outage and make them contribute to California’s budget shortfall.


13 posted on 02/19/2023 9:29:53 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: CFW

I don’t know about others, but I’m thinking Soros.


14 posted on 02/19/2023 9:30:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2

Even if they do who is to say it will work in an outage?

Years ago Verizon had a failure of the 911 system in Northern Virginia because a backup generator ran out of fuel during a power outage. They weren’t keeping the tank full, I think I recall that the fuel delivery contract ended and wasn’t renewed or something similar.

Not knowing much about how things work in California, perhaps they aren’t any better at organizing things like that than the local yokels that seem to run things in Virginia.


15 posted on 02/19/2023 9:33:37 PM PST by brianl703
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: CFW

Are they acting alone? Is there someone funding them or training them?


16 posted on 02/19/2023 9:34:52 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Brian Griffin
How will the EVs get recharged?

Solution: 15-Minute Cities!


17 posted on 02/19/2023 9:36:06 PM PST by montag813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: sauropod

“In Alameda County, CA 79.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 17.6% voted for the Republican Party.”

Let them suffer as much as possible on earth.

Democrats are selling us out to Communists and BLM thugs as well as Antifa vermin. They promote ripping babies out of wombs and puncturing them with sharp scissors as “partial birth abortions.”

By the way, when NYC and others have power outages the local persons of color loot stores, riot and burn. In one of the three largest East Coast outages a women said to a reporter on TV: “They say this was an Act of God. That means God wants us black people to steal and take what we want now. It is an Act of God.”

Gentle question: What are non persons of color doing while the lights go out? (spoiler: nothing)


18 posted on 02/19/2023 9:36:22 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloSinud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: jmacusa

After the Crimean bridge attack, periodical arsons on the Russian infrastructure, the tacit approval by the US of the assassination of Dugin’s girl in Moscow, and pipeline bombing on top of that, do you really believe that the mainland US is off-limit?


19 posted on 02/19/2023 9:36:30 PM PST by NorseViking
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: CFW

Just fire up the solar generators!


20 posted on 02/19/2023 9:38:02 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-130 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson