Sniper attack on power substation 4/13

[Brass]

51,000 gallon spill!!!! Does anyone have a repair cost estimate?

[merl]

51,000 gallon spill!!!! Does anyone have a repair cost estimate?

Considering AT&T is offering $250k just for info on the cut fiber I'm gonna go with a hell of alot. Two transformers, cut fiber, then the ancillary costs of shutting down the substation.

[Gman]

With the CA environmental laws, that cleanup had to be very expensive, including removal of the contaminated soil.

[streetglideok]

Could easily have been a test by terrorists to determine the response from such an attack, and the impact an attack like that would have. Now imagine several hundred of them retards attacking hundreds of substations across the country, all at once.

[spqrzilla]

I think eco-terrorists who expected more impact.

[ben4372]

This is true, but you cant really do anything about it. Usually it's drunks or dumb people. The number of lines that needed fixing because some one was celebration New Years or the 4th of July. Firearms style. My favorite was a fiber cut when copper theft was all the rage. Turns out bums cant scrap fiber. We're all mostly at the mercy of people just not doing it. How did he get that many rounds off with all the gun laws?

[Limited GM]

How many non professional people wouldn't sell out their beer buddy for $250,000? I'd wager very few.

[rbeau30]

It probably was some drunks or dumb people.... But all the publicity it caused will befinately now give terrorists an idea if they had not planned for this in the first place.