Commentary by management consultant Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life
Thursday, February 06, 2014
Protecting The Grid
Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Smith answers questions about attacks on the U. S. power grid. These reports are quite disturbing especially given the enormous damage that a prolonged outage would produce.
The interesting part of this problem isn't mentioned in the story. Do you know what the lead time is on transformers? Here's a NYT piece at the link to give you some idea. A couple of days isn't going to do it, if there's a major effort made to cripple the grid.
So, remember the self-protection part of your planning, too. After all, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
3 comments:
Getting the plywood panels for my windows ready. . .How to secure the generator?
Kurt,
We're reviewing our self-sufficiency plan. That doesn't seem weird anymore.
Michael
The interesting part of this problem isn't mentioned in the story. Do you know what the lead time is on transformers? Here's a NYT piece at the link to give you some idea. A couple of days isn't going to do it, if there's a major effort made to cripple the grid.
So, remember the self-protection part of your planning, too. After all, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Good luck.
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