Yesterday's Broad Power Outage Likely Caused By Geomagnetic Storm

[Free Vulcan]

Yesterday, a massive US power grid failure was seen across the entire United States in one simultaneous fashion. San Fransisco, New York, and Los Angeles were the three main areas that were hit the hardest. Each of the areas experienced challenges or shut downs in business commerce. Also, basic infrastructure such as communication networks, mass transportation, and supply chains experienced challenges. To many this seemed apocalyptic with anaylst citing possible cyber attacks amid mounting geopolitical turmoil across the globe. We’re shocked that mainstream media didn’t revive the failing Russian narrative for another round of fake news to confuse the masses. Personally, I don’t think it was a cyber attack or the Russians, but more of a Space Weather Event.

Space weather refers to the environmental conditions in Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere due to the Sun and the solar wind that can influence the functioning and reliability of spaceborne and ground-based systems and services or endanger property or human health.

Here is PG&E outage map from yesterday’s event. Widespread...

Read more at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-21/total-chaos-cyber-attack-feared-multiple-cities-hit-simultaneous-power-grid-failures

[Cripplecreek]

First I heard about it.

[Free Vulcan]

First I heard about it.

Me too. Very few are reporting it. Mostly local coverage.

[NavyCanDo]

Fake News meter is pegging.  The SF outage was caused by a fire in the PG&E substation.

[geronl]

I've seen and heard nothing about it.

[Gefn]

It was the main headline on Drudge for awhile.

[Hondo69]

My old TV had an option for subtitles, but my new TV gives me a new option for something called Real Translation.  I like it a lot and it comes in very handy when watching the news.  For example:

When the talking head says, "The Russians did it" the translator gives me the subtitle: The Democrat Party did it.

When the talking head says, "Geomagnetic Storm" the translator gives me the subtitle: The Russians did it.

[Cripplecreek]

Fake News meter is pegging.  The SF outage was caused by a fire in the PG&E substation.

Last major outage I remember was the big one several years back that took out the power everywhere between NY and Detroit. I lucked out and was just outside the area affected so I could watch people walking out of the cities on TV.

[Fishrrman]

This is simply nonsense.

Do "geomagnetic" storms discriminate against democratic urban areas?