Posted on 10/08/2017 11:20:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
The takedown of the Puerto Rican power grid by Hurricane Irma will, we hope, provide a teaching moment. The United States power grid is vulnerable, and the consequences of a widespread failure, especially if lengthy, will be a disaster of monumental proportions. This should not be a new realization. Serious analysts such as the Foundation for Resilient Societies and the EMP Commission have been warning us for a long time. The warnings have been ignored or even actively opposed by the electric power industry.
America's electric grid can be brought down by sabotage or by natural forces, such as the hurricane in Puerto Rico. Hurricanes have limited geographic scope, but solar storms can affect the entire country. As was shown by the Puerto Rican experience, without electricity, credit and debit cards don't work. Cash becomes king. Without electricity, communications become dubious.
Among natural threats to the electric grid, solar storms are perhaps the most serious. A solar storm causes the Earth's magnetic field to move and induce large direct currents in long conductors, such as power lines and communications cables. The 1859 Carrington Event was so powerful that some telegraph operators were electrocuted by voltages induced in the wires. Fortunately, in 1859, the power grid did not exist. A smaller March 1989 solar storm crashed the Quebec power grid and destroyed a large power transformer at the Salem nuclear generating station in New Jersey. If the 1989 solar storm had been as severe as the Carrington Event, much of the North American grid could have gone down for months or years.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Fine them? Why? Nature exacts it's own price on the unprepared.
Lesson One: do not live in a Liberal Hellhole,
Two: Do not depend on union drivers to get food delivered to you.
Exactly
The MORMONs are gonna win!
(And the Amish...)
But are we going to form a prepper police to enforce a legal requirement to do so?
SP; you might be mentioned here.
Maria.
H->! keeps our Nation’s supply in her purse.
Solar is expensive.
Batteries are bad.
OTOH, on a sunny day there may be no need to burn fuel to generate a subsistence level of electricity.
PS, I have a few “portable” solar panels to help with backup power.
ping
Interesting, thanks.
" Deliberate physical attack and sabotage of the grid are also major threats (has already happened).
But perhaps the biggest danger would be an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) created by detonation of a nuclear device above the atmosphere (Already threatened by the Norks).
And yet we wonder why Russia has already underground facilities to house, feed, and maintain millions of their population .
If you have miles and acres of food, but if you don't have the fuel/energy to get it where it is needed, it doesn't really matter, because it will spoil in the fields, or on the docks.
H/T to DuncanWaring, Tolerance Sucks Rocks, and bitt
The Puerto Rico power grid was down before hurricane Irma even reached the island.
However, you still want to be prepared.
we rebuilt Germany after the War, but it’s too damn expensive to fix our own stuff...BS.
The “retrofit” costs would save them thousands, see how much they have to spend fixing things after a storm. Man power, hotels, food, overtime...
It would go over about as well as the Retirement Police, to assure everyone is prepared for retirement.
Maria.
First thing I noticed, too.
The article names the WRONG hurricane.
>>The “retrofit” costs would save them thousands, see how much they have to spend fixing things after a storm. Man power, hotels, food, overtime...
Do you work in the management of a utility?
I do.
Every Rican needs to buy a generator.
Soybeans? Must be a solient green bean estrogen conspiracy.
Many rich guys tell epople on youtube: do not save! You will be screwed over big time. Borrow, get in debt and invest with it.
It is the sad game of the day because the federal debt is propped by the fed reserve.
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