When the Lights Go Out, Remember You Were Warned

[Gardening Grandma]

..Last week, America’s intelligence leaders informed Congress that Russia “is now staging cyber attack assets to allow it to disrupt or damage US civilian and military infrastructure during a crisis….” Russia can disrupt an American electrical distribution network “for at least a few hours” and is “mapping our critical infrastructure with the long-term goal of being able to cause substantial damage.”



Testifying before Congress, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned: “[T]he Kremlin is stepping up its campaign to divide Western political and security institutions and undermine the post-WWII international order. We expect Russia will continue to wage its information war against democracies and to use social media to attempt to divide our societies.”



www.newsandguts.com/trump-russia-timeline-update-when-the-lights-go-out-remember-you-were-warned-repeatedly/

This is what the man who thinks he knows more than our career intelligence officers is contradicting. What a tool!

[busymom]

They were actually getting low on natural gas levels in my home state, during the bitterly cold temperatures last week, and some communities were asking people to turn down their thermostats so no one would be without heat.  It wouldn't take much, in severe weather, for there to be some sort of crisis, and judging by the lack of progress on the coast after Hurricane Michael last year, I don't expect the current administrations to "jump in" and fix any problems.  I'm blessed to now live in an area where we could technically survive without electricity, and most likely I'd be inviting extended family from colder climates to sleep here until a crisis is over, or until we get a smarter administration.

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Feb 5, 2019 20:43:52 GMT -5 busymom said:

They were actually getting low on natural gas levels in my home state, during the bitterly cold temperatures last week, and some communities were asking people to turn down their thermostats so no one would be without heat.  It wouldn't take much, in severe weather, for there to be some sort of crisis, and judging by the lack of progress on the coast after Hurricane Michael last year, I don't expect the current administrations to "jump in" and fix any problems.  I'm blessed to now live in an area where we could technically survive without electricity, and most likely I'd be inviting extended family from colder climates to sleep here until a crisis is over, or until we get a smarter administration.

Haven't seen one for quite a while.


I went with a wood burning heater as backup in the living room.

Heats the whole house.

Generator's out back.

Seemed like a better idea than waiting for politicians to fix things. 

[Tiny]

Feb 7, 2019 12:36:33 GMT -5 @x said:

Feb 5, 2019 20:43:52 GMT -5 busymom said:

They were actually getting low on natural gas levels in my home state, during the bitterly cold temperatures last week, and some communities were asking people to turn down their thermostats so no one would be without heat.  It wouldn't take much, in severe weather, for there to be some sort of crisis, and judging by the lack of progress on the coast after Hurricane Michael last year, I don't expect the current administrations to "jump in" and fix any problems.  I'm blessed to now live in an area where we could technically survive without electricity, and most likely I'd be inviting extended family from colder climates to sleep here until a crisis is over, or until we get a smarter administration.

Haven't seen one for quite a while.


I went with a wood burning heater as backup in the living room.

Heats the whole house.

Generator's out back.

Seemed like a better idea than waiting for politicians to fix things. 

Awww, you "rural" people are so cute.  And I mean that in the nicest way.     
On one hand you'll swear up and down that you'll take care of your own  (I assume that means your neighbors - maybe I'm making a bad assumption?)   I always thought that "taking care of your own" meant doing something for the Greater Good.... 

And here you are slamming a community for attempting to help it's "own".   

I know living in a densely populated area (where it's really helpful for everyone to have some sort of "administration" at a high level - aka the city or county or state) it's VERY helpful for everyone living there to have the 'government' maintain "everyday" conveniences.  It improves our standard of living.   

Living in a densely populated area it means you HAVE to cooperate with other people to have nice things/have a nice standard of living.    

Not to mention that our "own" might be 10's of thousands of people.

I don't see how a plea for having the inhabitants of an area do something for the greater good - is a bad thing.  It's called helping your own.   
 

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Feb 11, 2019 12:30:43 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Feb 7, 2019 12:36:33 GMT -5 @x said:

Haven't seen one for quite a while.


I went with a wood burning heater as backup in the living room.

Heats the whole house.

Generator's out back.

Seemed like a better idea than waiting for politicians to fix things. 

Awww, you "rural" people are so cute.  And I mean that in the nicest way.     
On one hand you'll swear up and down that you'll take care of your own (1)  (I assume that means your neighbors - maybe I'm making a bad assumption?)   I always thought that "taking care of your own" meant doing something for the Greater Good.... 

And here you are slamming a community for attempting to help it's "own".   

I know living in a densely populated area (where it's really helpful for everyone to have some sort of "administration" at a high level - aka the city or county or state) it's VERY helpful for everyone living there to have the 'government' maintain "everyday" conveniences.  It improves our standard of living.   

Living in a densely populated area it means you HAVE to cooperate with other people to have nice things/have a nice standard of living.   (2) 

Not to mention that our "own" might be 10's of thousands of people.

I don't see how a plea for having the inhabitants of an area do something for the greater good - is a bad thing.  It's called helping your own.   
 

(1)  I never sweared up and down about taking care of anybody, except for my immediate household.  Where do you get this stuff, lol ?  Lefty face book memes/stereotypes ?

(2)  That's why I don't get anywhere near densely populated areas.  When that standard applies for a standard of living, the old adage applies, that the fleet is only as fast as the slowest ship.  No thanks.


In conclusion, you probably wouldn't find me very cute.   

You wait for your politicians to fix things, I'll slam them regularly for the idiots they usually are.


Quote;   It includes a 10-year commitment to convert “100 percent of the power demand in the United States” to “clean, renewable and zero-emission energy sources,” to upgrade “all existing buildings” to meet energy efficiency requirements, and to expand high-speed rail so broadly that most air travel would be rendered obsolete.

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/climate/green-new-deal.html


It's the "ten years"  that kept me  .

[teen persuasion]

When we had the bitterly cold temps a few weeks back, there was a power failure in my area, starting at 10:30pm. By the time we got power back, our baseboard water heater lines had frozen in one area.

We also learned that in a neighboring town, also affected by the power outage, the library and village hall burned to the ground during the night.

The power outage was blamed on the extreme cold - somehow took out a substation. The fire was likely caused by a surge due to the power issue. I know we had dim lights immediately after the first blackout, some level of electricity was still in the lines. We unplugged all our electronic devices fearing a surge.