Power outages

[JohnR]

Yeh - EMP...

Figure a few more countries than just Russia could do EMP.

India, France, UK perhaps (though dount France and UK going Nuke on us). But seriously consider PRC capable of doing so...

Anyone remember the movie The Day After? Was played around the Superbowl in 85 I think? It was kinda eery at the time being a teenager, going to school at HQEUCOM in Germany, watching this movie at the O'Club at Patch Barracks and hearing the reports of Soviet tanks fighting Nato tanks in Germany....

[Flaptail]

hOW THE HELL DID WE GET TO NUKING SOMEONE FROM GETTING POWER LINES UNDERGROUND INSTEAD OF OVERHEAD?

ps The Fulda Gap was rendered indefensible at the end of WWII, with airpower and ICBM's and Short range missiles the only thing the gap would be good for was sending in tanks to look for the few, if any survivors, not that you could do much for them anyway.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

hOW THE HELL DID WE GET TO NUKING SOMEONE FROM GETTING POWER LINES UNDERGROUND INSTEAD OF OVERHEAD?

Well, powerlines act like a giant antenna to transmit the EMP

I'd love to see powerlines go underground, it would dramatically improve my waterview, but the cost would be prohibitive.

-spence

[Karl F]

I would love to see all the utilities undergorund, but, I also realize the cost would be thru the roof. would be the ultimate solution I think, but won't happen.. any time soon.

What really Frosts My Onions, is, we pay a premium for Electricity, Phone, and Cable, and they are relying on worn out, patched up, (pathes on patches, is what more than one technician has told me) lines and equipment, and I can almost say the days we have uninterupted service, are less than the days we have some kind of trouble.. I get "brown" spells from the electric, can watch the lights dim and brighten.. phone, (why I still have a land line, is beyond me, but wife insists) goes static more often than not, cable... don't get me started on that.. they installed amplifiers in the house, and on the street, no charge, last time out, due to poor signal.. (crappy old patched wires)...

For what we pay, they should all string brand new high tech, state of the art stuff....

Big trouble too, in my town, and most on the cape is the feelgooders..
that won't allow trees to be limbed back away from roadside, and power lines, like they did years ago.... so...

Wind Blows= Interuppted service

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

hOW THE HELL DID WE GET TO NUKING SOMEONE FROM GETTING POWER LINES UNDERGROUND INSTEAD OF OVERHEAD?

My fault

ps The Fulda Gap was rendered indefensible at the end of WWII, with airpower and ICBM's and Short range missiles the only thing the gap would be good for was sending in tanks to look for the few, if any survivors, not that you could do much for them anyway.

The Fulda Gap is a section of territory between the former East German border and Frankfurt, (West) Germany. Named for the nearby town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap was of immense strategic importance during the Cold War. It was one of two obvious routes for a hypothesized Soviet attack on West Germany from its bases in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. (The other obvious route was via the North German Plain; a third, less likely route, involved an attack through Austria up the Danube River valley.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap

[Bigcat]

The Fulda Gap is a section of territory between the former East German border and Frankfurt, (West) Germany. Named for the nearby town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap was of immense strategic importance during the Cold War. It was one of two obvious routes for a hypothesized Soviet attack on West Germany from its bases in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. (The other obvious route was via the North German Plain; a third, less likely route, involved an attack through Austria up the Danube River valley.)

My son was in the 11th ARC,and there job was to defend the Fulda.
They were told that their life expediency would be about 45 seconds if the Russians attacked. and that was in a M1A1