Sniper attack on power substation 4/13

[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.

[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.