Multiple Electrical Substations Attacked in NC

[Big Green]

I saw some folks posting about no power last night and saw today that nearly 40,000 people are without power after several substations were vandalized.

All-Out Effort Underway to Investigate Power Station Attack

Federal, state and local authorities on Monday said they were continuing to press their investigation into Saturday night's attack on two power transmission substations in Carthage and West End.

www.thepilot.com

 

[reddog]

I always thought they would be easy targets for bad people.

 

[studenygreg]

I always thought they would be easy targets for bad people.

I have had the same thoughts occasionally when passing by. I think much of our infrastructure depends on a polite society and is vulnerable to turds

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[Big Green]

I’m really curious as to who and why. For those that don’t know, Moore Co. is next door to Cumberland Co which is where Ft Bragg and a whole bunch of high speed guys train and live. I’m gonna assume it’s some asshat being stupid about something local and not some kind of anti US domestic terrorism type stuff. That would be a bad place to try that, from the word “go” response time could be measured in minutes, not even hours.

 

[billtool]

I mve had the same thoughts occasionally when passing by. I think much of out infrastructure depends on a polite society and is vulnerable to turds

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“… an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things to kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both.”
-Beyond This Horizon
-Robert Heinlein

 

[etmo]

It's an old topic, but still a valid one


Protecting them is a sensible thought, no doubt, but who is going to raise their arm and vote for an increase in taxes to pay for it?

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

This is one reason NOT to connect Texas to the national grid.

 

[Vaquero]

These aren't things I wish for the general public to know.

I have heavily edited some posts in this thread.
I ask, if you know how to disable essential infrastructure, don't post it on TGT.
It's not the kind of information sharing I want to be associated with.

Thanks.

 

[etmo]

This is one reason NOT to connect Texas to the national grid.

Is there such a thing as a "national" grid? I thought there were 3 grids, East, West, and Texas.

Now I agree with your sentiment, Texas should remain independent of any grid ties, and while independence reduces our risk, it doesn't make us immune to what happened in Kkkalifornia or (perhaps, we don't know enough yet) what happened in NC.

Ultimately, those other grids are something I care much less about than our grid here in Texas, and the question remains -- Does anyone raise their hand in favor of increased taxes to secure the grid (and after that, secure the rails, and the border, and etc, etc, etc)?

If not, then we have to own it if/when we go dark. We have to say, "Yes, we had examples of what could easily happen, we knew we were totally vulnerable, we had time and money (didn't I read about a Texas budget surplus this year?), but we sat on our arses and did nothing"

 

[studenygreg]

These aren't things I wish for the general public to know.

I have heavily edited some posts in this thread.
I ask, if you know how to disable essential infrastructure, don't post it on TGT.
It's not the kind of information sharing I want to be associated with.

Thanks.

Noted. I will just delete my post.

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