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Op-Ed

The Fight For Light | Protecting the Power Grid

January 9, 2017 by Scott Witner 3 Comments

The Fight For Light | Protecting the Power Grid

In the following video series provided by NRA News, you’ll get a glimpse into just how vulnerable our national power grid really is. The threats to the power grid range from smaller attacks on major sub stations to a larger more catastrophic EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) strike. Several years ago we experienced a small attack on a sub station in silicon valley taking out a large section of that area. Little is known about that specific attack. Some think it could have been a small terror cell gathering intel such as our reaction time to the outage and how long it took to restore service. Either way it’s a wake up call to the overall vulnerability of the power grid. There is little we can do individually to help secure the grid, but there are steps we can take to survive outages to the grid. We have published several articles on disaster preparation, long-term food and water storage and general survival skills in the event of power outages.  Take a few minutes to watch the following 3 videos to see just how scary things can get if we truly lose the power grid someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6PHyIzOP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZjXwVCUuyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZI6GBHqSOA


Featured image courtesy of the NRA YouTube Channel

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Scott Witner is the Editor of The Loadout Room and handles product sourcing for both Crate Club and Cuna Dog. He is a former Marine Corps Infantryman with 2ndBn/8th Marines and was attached to the 24th MEU(SOC) for a 6 month deployment to the Mediterranean. He has completed training in desert warfare at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center, mountain warfare and survival at the Mountain Warfare Training Center and attended the South Korean Mountain Warfare school in Pohang.

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