“Total Chaos”: Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With SIMULTANEOUS Power Grid Failures

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“Total Chaos” – Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures

By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, April 21, 2017:

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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CORMAC___NJ
CORMAC___NJ
6 years ago
Tatonka
Tatonka
6 years ago

Glad i have 2 standby power plants, they won’t catch me with the pants down.

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6 years ago

WalMart had Coleman dual fuel lanterns on clearance for 15 bucks a piece. I bought a few to add to my collection of fuel powered lanterns. They not only provide light, but heat in the winter. In the summer, I mix some pure citronella oil and lemon eucalyptus oil in the coleman fuel and kerosene to burn in the lamps to keep the skeeters away. That Tiki stuff doesn’t have a lot of active ingredient in it.

In any case, I have fuel, generators, non perishable food, water, guns and ammo. I’ll be OK for a little while.

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago

It’s the russians. USA can’t trust Putin. Nothing to do with islam

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Stop making those slurping sounds.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

All it will take is a few electrical switching stations and transformer sites to be taken out of service to expose the weakness and vulnerability of America. In a prolonged outage, how many hunter gatherers will be carrying their food up flights of stairs to their dark, unheated, un air-conditioned apartments? How long will urban life in a big city go on until it reverts to the law of in this case the concrete jungle?

old003
old003
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Europe is abut to find out.

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6 years ago
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AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I think that happened once in New York, and it took less than a day to revert to the concrete jungle.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

That is easy to see. Without the accoutrements of civilization, large concentrations people will become uncivilized very quickly.

moose
moose
6 years ago

That happened in the mid 60’s and the entire East coast went dark….surprisingly there were a lot of good neighbors doing positive things for their fellow man…

tatka150
tatka150
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

How about the life in the skyscrapers? Nobody is ready for nothing. Braindead idiots. Is it politically correct?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

Best get a copy of “Lord of the flies” to see how society will end up. However, the same stunt pulled on western europe, with its large muslim population, would result in wholesale intertribal warfare with an acceptably high fatality rate of islamic participants, as it has a much higher urban population density, with a denser population.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

O noes, how will devote muslims hear the call to prayers if there is no electricity? What would mutgonad, police beat upon him, do?

tatka150
tatka150
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

How did they hear it 1400 yrs ago?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

Dried camel manure powered muezzins.

gfmucci
gfmucci
6 years ago

Solar flare activity has been high the last few days. Just sayin’. That’s another possibility for scattered grid failure.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci

If that was the case, in all likelihood long runs of power lines would be the first to act as “antennas” picking up energy from flares, which has been seen in the past. Not likely that happened here.

Edward Cline
Edward Cline
6 years ago

There was a three-hour power outage here in Waco TX on Sunday.

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