National power grid down one month......Lord of the Flies?

[icepac]

How long before Piggy get's his head stove in?

[Eagler]

Riots would start within a week of a national power outage

Humvees would be patrolling before that...

Within a month it would be total chaos

Eagler

[icepac]

I wonder if the US strategic oil reserve will have been emptied by the time of the outage.

[zack1234]

Hottest day in UK ever.

Hottest it’s ever been since the world was created

 

Suckers

[AKIron]

There's not actually a "national power grid". There is an effort to create one. I think that's a bad idea.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/20/21293952/renewable-energy-power-national-grid-transmission-microgrids

[guncrasher]

Riots would start within a week of a national power outage

Humvees would be patrolling before that...

Within a month it would be total chaos

Eagler

don't think we have enough humvees to patrol every major city.


but the real question would be why will it go down?


semp

[icepac]

It only takes 9 substations down to take down “the grid”

[CptTrips]

but the real question would be why will it go down?

An outside Black Swan risk, but not impossible.  It's happened before.  Basically a natural EMP attack.

https://www.space.com/the-carrington-event

Image not only a power outage, but actually anything with circuitry or a chip being fried and having to be replaced.
Phones, computers, cars, ATM machines, etc.

[guncrasher]

yeah since the 80s I've heard of several of them.  then again a meteor the size of mount Wilshire can hit us.

but realistically you won't see humvees on the streets. perhaps on a few places but that's about it.  take the city of Los Angeles, it's actually dozens of cities all lumped together. doesn't even include San Bernardino or orange county. you would need hundreds of thousands or armed forces to control. and what about the rest of the country?  not enough manpower to even make a dent.

semp

[Eagler]

It will go down by computer hacking not emp- natural or man made imo

The destruction will come as we destroy ourselves through fear and greed

Eagler

[icepac]

A few guys with rifles can cause this. 
It’s happened before on small scale at the metcalf substation.
 Let’s hope the bad guys aren’t sending in teams through our open southern border to do exactly would be required to drop US grid.   

[icepac]

The power companies should take a hint from Captain Adana. 

[MiloMorai]

On August 14, 2003, much of the east coast was plunged into darkness. The power outages, which affected more than 50 million people, was sparked by a glitch at an Akron Ohio energy company, causing 265 power plants to shut down. Trains and traffic came to a halt as everyone tried to get out of New York City and back home.

https://youtu.be/FMCPuE_7oE8

[MiloMorai]

As New York and the entire northeast of the United States, quickly followed by southern states in Canada, were plunged into darkness in November 1965, it would prove to be the first of many mysterious “blackouts” that would stretch into the following year.

The one thing that appeared to connect these massive power failures was the appearance of strange objects in the area. They would usually hover over, or near power plants. While authorities, as you might expect, were quick to dispel any notion of alien interest in the Earth’s energy supplies, many other people would push for further study.

https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/cover-ups/east-coast-power-blackout-1965-ufos

[guncrasher]

As New York and the entire northeast of the United States, quickly followed by southern states in Canada, were plunged into darkness in November 1965, it would prove to be the first of many mysterious “blackouts” that would stretch into the following year.

The one thing that appeared to connect these massive power failures was the appearance of strange objects in the area. They would usually hover over, or near power plants. While authorities, as you might expect, were quick to dispel any notion of alien interest in the Earth’s energy supplies, many other people would push for further study.

https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/cover-ups/east-coast-power-blackout-1965-ufos

if the ufo hotlines limits you to 10 calls a day,  you might be a redneck.


semp