Tag: electric grid

A LESSON IN ASYMMETRIC WARFARE IN MOORE COUNTY

Guest Post by NC Scout

Moore County, NC. A mostly impoverished rural county in southeast NC with the exception of the influx of Fort Bragg government money and, of course,  the traditional home of Pineland. It rarely makes the news and is a place you never want to go. Lots of crime. The people that live there, at least for the most part, are transient, except for the ones who can’t get out. There’s an influx of liberal transplants racing to buy up cheap homes for pennies on the dollar, gentrifying traditional neighborhoods, planting BLM and rainbow flags, signs that say “y’all means all” and calling the police on the young black kids riding by Grandma’s old home, wondering why the blue haired people bought it and mommy is working two jobs and a side hustle and can’t make it. Same story in many places Seattle and Cali have infected here.

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The Day The Lights Go Out And The Trucks Stop Running

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

What would happen if some sort of major national emergency caused a massive transportation disruption that stopped trucks from running?  The next time you talk to a trucker, please thank them for their service, because without their hard work none of our lives would be possible.  In America today, very few of us live a truly independent lifestyle, and that means that we rely on the system to provide what we need.  Most of us take for granted that there will always be plenty of goods at Wal-Mart and at the grocery store whenever we need more “stuff”, and most of us never give a second thought to how all of that “stuff” gets there.  Well, the truth is that most of it is brought in by trucks, and if the trucks stopped running for some reason the entire country would devolve into chaos very rapidly.

Earlier today, I came across a quote from Alice Friedemann that detailed what we would be facing during a major national transportation disruption very nicely…

Within a week, in roughly this order, grocery stores would be out of dairy and other items that are delivered many times a day. And by the week, the shelves would be empty.

 

Hospitals, pharmacies, factories, and many other businesses also get several deliveries a day, and they’d be running out of stuff the first day.

 

And the second day, there’s be panic and hoarding. And restaurants, pharmacies would close. ATM’s would be out of money. Construction would stop. There’d be increasing layoffs. Increasing enormous amounts of trash not getting picked up, 685,000 tons a day. Service stations would be closed. Very few people would be working. And the livestock would start to be hungry from lack of feed deliveries.

 

Then within two weeks, clean water supplies would run out. Within four weeks to eight weeks, there wouldn’t be coal delivered to power plants and electricity would start shutting down. And when that happened, about a quarter of our pipelines use electricity, and so natural gas plants wouldn’t be fed natural gas and they’d start shutting down.

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What Will You Do When The Lights Go Out? The Inevitable Failure Of The US Grid

Submitted by Julieanna Geiger via OilPrice.com,

Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.

Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.

Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?

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STOCK UP ON WOOD

Is a perfect storm forming for this coming winter? The temperature this morning at my house was 55 degrees. That is unheard of in the middle of August. If this cool summer is a sign of a frigid brutal winter ahead, as described below, I won’t be a happy camper. If Obama’s new anti-coal regulations really shut down power plants in January, it could mean a nasty winter ahead. Time to order another cord of wood, just in case.

Via Doug Ross

 

ICE BLUE STATES: New EPA Regulations Threaten Devastating Power Outages This Winter

 

Barack Obama’s unlawful new EPA regulations — created in secret and orchestrated by what a Senate report calls “The Green Billionaires Club” — threaten the integrity of the entire electric grid this winter.

An unstable electric grid combined with a winter that promises to be “colder and snowier” than prior years appear to be a true recipe for disaster, especially in the bluest of states like Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts.

Joe Bastardi: … It’s flowing along right now into the type of El Nino situation that is notorious for giving the United States cold, snowy winters, especially in the eastern part of the United States, relative to the averages. That would be significant because we were within one power plant last year of having the grid overload …

Question: This is sounding horrific. I know that in the first quarter, the weather was said to be to blame for the slow economic growth. Are we going to stop working, basically is what you’re saying?

Joe Bastardi: This year, if you get the kind of winter that we had in 2009-2010 or 2002-2003 with the nation’s grid on the ropes the way it is and some of these regulations that I hear about coming down that are supposed to close plants on January 1st – and what I know, because we’re involved in getting people ready to fight snow in cities around the country – this could be a very, very big economic impact on the winter. And we’re very concerned about that.

Under the bogus rubric of “protecting the environment”, the Green Energy Billionaire’s Club operates in secret while simultaneously enriching itself and undermining capitalism.

An explosive, 92-page Senate study entitled “How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA”” has been largely ignored by vintage media. It reveals the truth behind the Marxist environmental movement and its goal of advancing fascism in the name of the environment.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.