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2022-12-05 -Land of the Free

North Carolina power substations taken out by gunfire: sheriff

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-05 01:04|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 FBI joins investigation into North Carolina power outage caused by ‘intentional’ attacks on substations

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-05 07:35|| 2022-12-05 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 News is saying that 'they knew what they were doing'.

I'll wait for the Duke Energy internal assessment as to what was actually damaged before corroborating that claim.

They may keep the actual components damaged under wraps as to not encourage copycats, though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-12-05 08:11|| 2022-12-05 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe I've said it here before, but most 'targets' within a substation are fairly robust, but some are indeed fragile.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-12-05 08:23|| 2022-12-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Now imaging that happening along the lines to and among certain cities, particularly Blue ones. You don't have enough security people to protect all of them. Just start that civil war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-05 08:47|| 2022-12-05 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 sounds like the Left is up to its old Hate hoax tricks in NC

Posted by 746 2022-12-05 08:50|| 2022-12-05 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope it's not an exercise in 'absorbing the violence' to come? Looks a lot like the gun did it. Don't these stations have cctv or security?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-05 09:07|| 2022-12-05 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 If it is Antifa, I would recommend that they not knock out power in any section of NC once basketball season is in full swing. In general folks there have a lot of guns, can shoot them and have always considered utilizing the criminal justice system as purely optional. Also the drive fast cars recklessly and road maintenance is theoretical once you are off the highways.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-05 09:43|| 2022-12-05 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I seem to remember something like this attempted in California at the beginning of the Afgan War. They weren't as successful.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-12-05 10:21|| 2022-12-05 10:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Was it this 6 Jan bomb guy again ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-05 10:30|| 2022-12-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm sure it's more FBI guys committing terrorism to try and 'set the narrative."

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-12-05 10:53|| 2022-12-05 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 How close is the substation to the railroad tracks?

Posted by Airandee 2022-12-05 10:54|| 2022-12-05 10:54|| Front Page Top

#12 #8 The last round of substation attacks in CA were around 2013-2014. In one attack, the shooter(s) took out at least a dozen transformers. Perp was never caught. 1)They had skill 2)Had specific targets in mind to accomplish a specific goal 3)Knew how long they had to accomplish attack and skip before LE showed up. What can be gleaned is that whoever initiated this attack came away with some very important info.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-12-05 11:38|| 2022-12-05 11:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Knew how long they had to accomplish attack and skip before LE showed up.

I.e., the general rule is 3 minutes. They'd make Charlestown proud.

Posted by Raj 2022-12-05 12:05|| 2022-12-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#14 In doing single point of failure analysis, it is not usual to consider a strategic scale of impact for a local event. The substation gunfire attack in CA gave a certain cautionary warning regarding replacement of key substructure and replacement time/cost. Certain types of transformers on mainline grid transmission lines were/are manufactured exclusively overseas, and replacement units in CONUS are kept at low stockage rates because of cost. So routine maintenance/replacement is mostly conducted by energy utility companies like PG&E, SCE and SDGE, on a LIFO, one for one ordering system with the manufacturers. Widespread, simultaneous substation kinetic attacks, low tech and easily subcontracted to local criminal groups with no terrorism markers in national databases, would overwhelm the replacement systems and domestic stockpiles, effectively creating massive national security impacts akin to an EMP attack without an electronic fingerprint. Such an event would require weeks or even months to mitigate given the small manufacture rate of such units. Somewhere within DHS a critical infrastructure analysis threat assessment is gathering dust I suspect.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-05 12:58|| 2022-12-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Southern Pines is in Moore County. Bunch of dudes in that AO that make a living out of doing stuff and not getting caught.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2022-12-05 14:13|| 2022-12-05 14:13|| Front Page Top

#16 They should hold antifa folks as if they were Jan 6 prisoners. No contact, no parole, solitary for a year. Watch the crime rates in certain cities drop through the floor.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-12-05 16:53|| 2022-12-05 16:53|| Front Page Top

#17 The perps could be illegal border crossers.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-12-05 18:24|| 2022-12-05 18:24|| Front Page Top

#18 Bunch of dudes in that AO

20 miles from Bragg.
You suggesting a training op?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-05 23:27|| 2022-12-05 23:27|| Front Page Top

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