Sniper attack on power substation 4/13

[th3w01f]

A little light reading...Amazing what you can get off the internet...

http://www.wecc.biz/compmtg/20131022..._v2%2000_c.pdf

Ok, now I'm even more worried.

[BPTactical]

Hood Rats playin wit deys choppas......

[th3w01f]

Attachment 40495

[hollohas]

This was not drunk rednecks shooting at things. It was planned and strategic. They cut very specific lines in an underground vault before the shooting began. The lines they cut shutdown phones and internet in the area including 911 service. I have been following this since it happened.

[roberth]

Old news, shows how vulnerable the grids (power and telecom) are.

I'm surprised the jihadis or nature nazis haven't hit more of these facilities.

[KevDen2005]

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/69187...g-to-see-here/

I know lots of people seem to be caught up on the use of the word, "Sniper." We get it, they weren't snipers. But I added an additional article to the others to show another aspect. Possibly a terrorist attack.

[davsel]

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/69187...g-to-see-here/

I know lots of people seem to be caught up on the use of the word, "Sniper." We get it, they weren't snipers. But I added an additional article to the others to show another aspect. Possibly a terrorist attack.

I suppose we will now see the utility companies purchasing millions of rounds of ammo.

From the link:

Mr. Wellinghoff, then chairman of FERC, said that after he heard about the scope of the attack, he flew to California, bringing with him experts from the U.S. Navy’s Dahlgren Surface Warfare Center in Virginia, which trains Navy SEALs. After walking the site with PG&E officials and FBI agents, Mr. Wellinghoff said, the military experts told him it looked like a professional job. In addition to fingerprint-free shell casings, they pointed out small piles of rocks, which they said could have been left by an advance scout to tell the attackers where to get the best shots. “They said it was a targeting package just like they would put together for an attack,” Mr. Wellinghoff said. . . .

A spokesman for Homeland Security said it is up to utilities to protect the grid. The department’s role in an emergency is to connect federal agencies and local police and facilitate information sharing, the spokesman said.

[Gman]

The government doesn't do anything well, other than wasting our tax dollars. Our borders aren't secure.

Yeah, we're vulnerable as hell. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out how to hit us where it hurts.

[merl]

from the FP article linked from the NPR story

A shooter "could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle and take the whole thing out," Wellinghoff said last month at a conference sponsored by Bloomberg. His proposed defense: A metal sheet that would block the transformer from view. "If you can't see through the fence, you can't figure out where to shoot anymore," Wellinghoff said. Price tag? A "couple hundred bucks." A lot cheaper than the billions the administration has spent in the past four years beefing up cyber security of critical infrastructure in the United States and on government computer networks.

He is talking about those metal strips that slide into a chain link fence. We're not even trying and when we do it is wasteful crap. The fact that we aren't even trying and little is happening (anything out there other than this that is not metal thieves?) says this is not a threat. Sure, do the cheap & easy stuff but this is not cause for concern.

[JohnnyEgo]

I'd place about equal money on current/former disgruntled employee(s) as terrorist, foreign or domestic.
I don't see a trust fund kid climbing down into a cable trunk, and the damage appears to be both targeted and specialized.