(12-06-2022, 11:22 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(12-06-2022, 10:46 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: So, this whole thing was supposed to be the result of a 'drag show' being performed at some nondescript bar in the area. Of course, liberal news outlets pinned it on 'Christo-fascists' which sounds like the latest buzzword for religious Nazi's.  The story is that shooting up the substation killed the power which didn't allow the drag show to commence.  The outage did happen at the bar, but then Duke Energy solved the issue quickly by rerouting power from another substation, which is SOP for outages.  Either this is a really stupid made up story, or a true story executed by stupid people.  You will have a greater chance of causing an outage to a residence by attacking the infrastructure closest to the residence, ie, the metering at the service, or the lower voltage lateral power lines.  That would make it more difficult to reroute power from circuits still intact, cause you have damaged what is closest to them.  Of course, the bar could have also had an emergency generator as well.  Either way, they succeeded in damaging high voltage transformers, which usually don't have a lot of replacement spares in stock because of their size and cost, and leaving most likely thousands of people without power for a while.

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