We had calm weather last night in WNC. At 2:42 AM, the power went out. My first thought was an EMP attack. After checking the outage map, it was just another routine power outage in the mountains. No backfeeds so any disruption always takes out over 2000 customers.
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I have a friend who is a retired lineman for Duke Energy. He told me years ago that the grid is held together with baling wire and rubber bands. He told me how easy it would be for a cascading failure to occur should one desire to take down the grid. Hint … one doesn’t need an EMP. One just needs to know where to throw a bunch of barbed wire.
And this is why I have back up power sources because I as well have power outages sometimes and for no reason in the foot hills in the western part of the state.
Nothing to worry about about if it was an emp would all know about it.
Have a whole house generator, it can be a beautiful day, for no reason the power goes out. At least this year the power company hired a contractor to fly a helicopter cutting back trees off lines.
I have a natgas standby generator (effectively whole house, but is tied to 16 of about 30 total circuits to run what I deemed most important). I also have a tri-fuel portable as a backup to that, and 3 large inverters (one pure sine wave) to run off my vehicles, two of which have heavily upgraded alternators), plus all the proper cabling and spare vehicle batteries kept of float chargers at all times, in case I need to parallel them to increase ampacity on the input side.
I accumulated all this over the course of several years, which kept the cost manageable. Yes, there is ongoing maintenance cost. Where I’m at in the midwest, we have a generally well thought of electric utility operator who does reasonable maintenance, and runs multiple generating plants of its own. Despite that, we get periodic dropouts with no explanation, even on nice, clear days. Often these are 30 seconds or less, and are a nuisance because they affect clocks and some appliances. Prolonged outages are fairly uncommon, but we do do get typical Midwestern severe weather, and so power failures of a few hours, to a few days at the extreme, are not unheard of, by any means.
If an EMP ever hits (whether a CME, a or nuclear attack), and the effects are as devastating as expected, that is likely a permanently lifestyle altering event, and one which cannot really be effectively prepped for. As such, I’ve planned for typical expected issues, moreso than extreme outlier events.