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can't find the article off hand, but this happened only a few years ago in california; someone cut the local phonelines prior to emptying a machine gun into a s
by petee 8y ago
can't find the article off hand, but this happened only a few years ago in california; someone cut the local phonelines prior to emptying a machine gun into a substation
- wcarss 8y agoGoogle suggests that was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack in 2013 -- AT&T lines were cut and a "team of gunmen" fired shots into several PG&E transformers, causing substantial damage.
- sgc 8y agoThis means people decrying the mindset of seriously asking a question about whether this is an attack are very premature and should let the questions be asked and answered in an orderly and prompt fashion. But my money is at least partially on federal understaffing during a shut down having a variety of downstream effects.
- daodedickinson 8y agoGiven that Russia has threatened such grid attacks continually for over a decade, it has to be evaluated. It reminds me of the Russian robocalls that have threatened school attacks all over the globe but mostly in the United States in order to further degrade the future output of our education system.