For some reason this story isn’t getting much attention.
Someone, or some people, intentionally shot up 2 power substations in Moore County, NC, disabling power for days to 12,000 homes and businesses during freezing cold weather. A state of emergency was declared and a curfew was established.
The FBI is treating this as the terrorism that it is. They believe it’s linked to far right extremists trying to start a civil war. They cite an online post from a month ago. One theory is that this outage was intended to cancel a controversial drag show that originally allowed children to attend (this was later changed but the show was ended early due to the outage).
If the latter is true, this would be taking homo/trans-phobia to a whole new level. I have some trouble believing this was truly the motive, but also wouldn’t be surprised considering my hospital network has received multiple bomb threats this year due to trans-related treatments and the false belief trans surgeries are performed on children.
Come to find out, this same area had another attack 3 weeks ago. Florida, Washington State, and Oregon have recently had attacks. In fact, as of 8/2022 there have been at least 70 attacks/acts of sabotage on the US power grid.
If this is political extremism (presumably right wing, but ecoterrorism is also a possibility), this is a serious issue and should be concerning.
(Large transformers in particular are extremely expensive, hand made equipment. Spares aren’t exactly readily available or in large quantities. 10+ years Boston had a transformer explosion and much of the city didn’t have power for 3-4 days because they had to ship in a replacement from another part of the country.)
North Carolina substations attack a 'wake-up call' in latest nationwide infrastructure threat
A shooting that damaged power substations in North Carolina has been deemed an attack, as officials warn of threats to the nationwide infrastructure.
www.usatoday.com
Someone, or some people, intentionally shot up 2 power substations in Moore County, NC, disabling power for days to 12,000 homes and businesses during freezing cold weather. A state of emergency was declared and a curfew was established.
The FBI is treating this as the terrorism that it is. They believe it’s linked to far right extremists trying to start a civil war. They cite an online post from a month ago. One theory is that this outage was intended to cancel a controversial drag show that originally allowed children to attend (this was later changed but the show was ended early due to the outage).
If the latter is true, this would be taking homo/trans-phobia to a whole new level. I have some trouble believing this was truly the motive, but also wouldn’t be surprised considering my hospital network has received multiple bomb threats this year due to trans-related treatments and the false belief trans surgeries are performed on children.
Come to find out, this same area had another attack 3 weeks ago. Florida, Washington State, and Oregon have recently had attacks. In fact, as of 8/2022 there have been at least 70 attacks/acts of sabotage on the US power grid.
If this is political extremism (presumably right wing, but ecoterrorism is also a possibility), this is a serious issue and should be concerning.
(Large transformers in particular are extremely expensive, hand made equipment. Spares aren’t exactly readily available or in large quantities. 10+ years Boston had a transformer explosion and much of the city didn’t have power for 3-4 days because they had to ship in a replacement from another part of the country.)