Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.
Officials report that business, traffic and day-to-day life has come to a standstill in San Francisco, reportedly the worst hit of the three major cities currently experiencing outages.
Power companies in all three regions have yet to elaborate on the cause, though a fire at a substation was the original reason given by San Francisco officials.
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A series of subsequent power outages in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City left commuters stranded and traffic backed up on Friday morning. Although the outages occurred around the same time, there is as of yet no evidence that they were connected by anything more than coincidence.
The first outage occurred at around 7:20 a.m. in New York, when the power went down at the 7th Avenue and 53rd Street subway station, which sent a shockwave of significant delays out from the hub and into the rest of the subway system. By 11:30 a.m. the city’s MTA confirmed that generators were running again in the station, although the New York subways were set to run delayed into the afternoon.
Later in the morning, power outages were reported in Los Angeles International Airport, as well as in several other areas around the city.
Via : Inverse
The San Francisco Fire Department was responding to more than 100 calls for service in the Financial District and beyond, including 20 elevators with people stuck inside, but reported no immediate injuries. Everywhere, sirens blared as engines maneuvered along streets jammed with traffic.
Traffic lights were out at scores of intersections, and cars were backing up on downtown streets as drivers grew frustrated and honked at each other.
Via: SF Gate
The cause of the outage has not yet been made clear, though given the current geo-political climate it is not out of the question to suggest a cyber attack could be to blame. It has also been suggested that the current outages could be the result of a secretive nuclear/EMP drill by the federal government.
As we have previously reported, the entire national power grid has been mapped by adversaries of the United States and it is believed that sleep trojans or malware may exist within the computer systems that maintain the grid.
In a 2016 report it was noted that our entire way of life has been left vulnerable to saboteurs who could cause cascading blackouts across the United States for days or weeks at a time:
It isn’t just EMPs and natural disaster that poses a threat to the grid, but there is also the potential for attacks on individual power substations in the vast network of decentralized and largely unguarded power grid chain. A U.S. government study established that there would be “major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed.”
Whether by criminals, looters, terrorists, gangs or pranksters, it would take very little to bring down the present system, and there is currently very little the system can do to protect against this wide open threat.
Whether the current outages are the result of a targeted infrastructure cyber attack or simply a coincidence, most Americans think the impossible can’t happen, as The Prepper’s Blueprint author Tess Pennington highlights, a grid-down scenario won’t just be a minor inconvenience if it goes on for more than a day or two:
Consider, for a moment, how drastically your life would change without the continuous flow of energy the grid delivers. While manageable during a short-term disaster, losing access to the following critical elements of our just-in-time society would wreak havoc on the system.
- Challenges or shut downs of business commerce
- Breakdown of our basic infrastructure: communications, mass transportation, supply chains
- Inability to access money via atm machines
- Payroll service interruptions
- Interruptions in public facilities – schools, workplaces may close, and public gatherings.
- Inability to have access to clean drinking water
It is for this reason that we have long encouraged Americans to prepare for this potentially devastating scenario by considering emergency food reserves, clean water reserves and even home defense strategies in the event of a widespread outage. The majority of Americans have about 3 days worth of food in their pantry. Imagine for a moment what Day 4 might look like in any major city that goes dark.
This exclusive clip from American Blackout shows what an American Blackout might look like:
Operation Gotham Shield: U.S. Gov’t To “Simulate Nuke Blast Over Manhattan”
by Tyler Durden
Apr 21, 2017 10:00 PM
Something has aroused the interests of the American people… perhaps one too many coincidentally ‘useful’ event means government facilitators have jumped the shark? (via Google Trends)
Which is perhaps why, after discovering Project Gotham Shield, SHTFplan.com’s Mac Slavo warns, a false flag watch is now active.
A general alert is out for something major in the near or immediate future. Hopefully, it is just another false alarm, instead of another false flag. Either way, danger is at hand.
Given all that is going on in the world, it is downright eerie to discover that the federal government is once again staging mock disasters that draw disturbing parallels with current world events.
In just a few days, during April 24-26th, Operation Gotham Shield will commence.
It is a tabletop, joint agency exercise involving FEMA, Homeland Security and a myriad of law enforcement and military agencies. WMD, chemical and biological units will all be on hand as a response is tested for a “simulated” nuclear detonation over the United States’ foremost urban center, in the iconic and densely populated island of Manhattan and nearby shores of New Jersey.
The potential for a more explosive false flag to spin out of control, by hijacking and ‘converting’ the simulated actions, is all too real.
This is closely related to the mechanism that many researchers believe was at work on the day of 9/11, nesting a false flag attack inside of a series of large-scale training operations which invoked emergency powers and simulated attacks in locations that were actually hit.
According to the Voice of Reason:
On April 18th thru May 5th, 2017, state, local, and federal organizations alike are planning for Operation Gotham Shield 2017 — a major nuclear detonation drill in the New York-New Jersey area, along with the U.S.-Canadian border.
During this exercise, 4 nuclear devices, 2 of which are rendered “safe” during the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Vital Archer Exercise, and one successful 10kt detonation in the NYC/NJ area, along with one smaller detonation on the U.S./Canadian border are to take place.
Among the organizations involved are:
– U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
– U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
– U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO)
– U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
– U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
– U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
– State of New Jersey Office of Emergency Management
– State of New York Office of Emergency Management
– City of New York Office of Emergency Management
The following document comes form The Nevada National Security Service. Their primary role with the government is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by supporting the stewardship of the nuclear deterrent, providing emergency response capability and training, and contributing to key nonproliferation and arms control initiatives.
Will anything catastrophic happen during or after that window of time? Will North Korea really attack the U.S. mainland? Will someone else do so, and blame their overseas enemies?
No one who knows the answers to these questions is willing to talk. For now, all we can do is watch, wait and listen.
Don’t jump to fear and speculation, but don’t lie down or look away either.
These will be trying times.
You’d best be adding to your preps at ramming speed. Time that remains keeps contracting.
My best barter items: .22 Cal bricks, Canned Corn Beef, Vodka and Shit Paper.
I got the vodka covered. I always have the vodka covered.
I picked up some Crown Royal since it was 25% reduced. Usually, I stick with Vodka or Gin.
Drills for the EMP nuke attacks? Could be.
Posted about Operation Gotham Shield yesterday and reminded folks that there was a drill going on on 9/11. There is always a drill before or during a FF, the problem is most of the sheep will fall for anything the news tells them.
What will your city look like after 3 days without power?
If there’s a new 911 being planned, it’s being planned and will be executed by the same domestic terrorists as the one in ’01. That will make it an act of treason, just like the last one. Maybe Trump could order the arrests of Cheney and the rest of W’s crew just for safety’s sake.
Naturally, Trump would never do any such thing, the treacherous mongoloid.
Look up “stuxnet”, the Israeli “hack” that affects control systems that are used in power plants, nuclear facilities, and for other industrial processes that utilize PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers).
You can bet that Israel is planning for and preparing the next “false flag” operation to get the USA to do its bidding…
What better way than to engineer a few power outages in major population centers…
Iran defeated Stuxnet. Maybe we can ask for their assistance.
I doubt they’ll be too keen to help, since what passes for diplomats in this and the past few regimes have accused them of everything but cornholing their own grannies. ;-/
Doesn’t this negate all that expensive military equipment the government so relies on to retain their power? Want to screw with a $13Bil aircraft carrier or sit on your ass in front of a computer typing? Stuff like this, germ and biological weaponry spells the end of empires, thank God (assuming we survive).
They are practicing for the big event. Why? Their principle support is in the cities. Is it to implement marshal law? Who gains from this?
That’s “martial” law. It’s “Marshall” Dillon. Fixed it for ‘ya. But otherwise I agree with you.
Great recommended reading to prep: “One second after”, and my fav, “Dies the fire”.
Decentralization of ALL power is the only thing that will ever keep us safe. That begins with political power, but as the fragility and periodic failures of our national grid show, it includes even electrical power. The recent “crackdowns” on people living off the grid is NOT about anything other than a loss of control by the powers that be. The cornered rat is the most dangerous animal of all. The cornered rats living in the Swamp of DC are truly the scariest folks on the planet on a good day. Just wait until they truly feel threatened.
So true, MrL. Here’s a great step forward towards that end by the great thinker of our age; Hans H Hoppe:
Hoppe : There is an interim solution. It’s called secession and political decentralization. Small states must be libertarian, otherwise the productive people will desert them. Desirable therefore is a world made up of thousands of Liechtensteins, Singapores and Hong Kongs. In contrast, a European central government—and even more so a world government—with a “harmonized” tax and regulation policy, is the gravest threat to freedom.
Not a matter of if ,but when this will happen.You know our enemies know the weakest points in our power grid.How does one really prepare for something like this if it last more than a couple days ? Guns and ammo ,beans and bread only last so long.Might be best to prepare to meet your maker.
Individual node attacks like the Metcalf, California transformer shooting, and the intrusion and theft a year later?
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/us/california-power-substation-attacked-in-2013-is-hit-again.html?_r=0
Nah, nuthin’ like that could happen, and if it’s attempted, the high National Security threat would have DHS troopers in Blackhawks and Abrams tanks there before the damage is done.
If this was a cyber attack. And they are so completely detrimental to our system. Then how were they able to fix it so fast?
Blessings:-}
“”there is as of yet no evidence that they were connected by anything more than coincidence.””
Perhaps there is an explanation for all this weirdness….What if the effects of this showed up a little earlier than expected??
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4431988/Powerful-solar-flares-spark-auroras-week.html
Anyone notice that there is a geomagnetic storm in progress?? This to me says not a conspiracy but shitty outdated electrical infrastructure unable to handle a minor G2 magnetic storm.
http://www.solarham.net/planetk.htm