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Originally posted by firefight
reply to post by stormcell
Problem with diesel is that fuel collects water and goes stale or gums up engine
Fuel has to be flused and replaced every few months
After Hurricanes last few years in this area ((New Jersey) many people invested in backup generators which run
om natural gas or propane
Don't have problems with fuel going bad and clogging up system
Originally posted by firefight
Interesting article from NY TIMES
Squirrels causing blackouts.......
www.nytimes.com...
I say grab your shooting irons and get the furry varmints before they reduce us to the Stone Age!
mwood
reply to post by xuenchen
They are not going to be turning off power and services. The drill is just an administrative type thing to test "how they would react"
Their going to pretend the powers out and follow their procedures and test how it plays out.
If anyone thinks their going to kill the entire nations power grid as a test is crazy.
On September 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was involved in an ongoing operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to northwestern North America. The US Military and NORAD had also planned to conduct several military exercises and a drill was being held by the National Reconnaissance Office, a Department of Defense agency. The operations, exercises and drills were all canceled following the September 11 attacks.
Operation Northern Vigilance, was a NORAD operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada.[1] The operation was a response to a Russian exercise, in which long-range bombers were dispatched to Russia's high north. The operation was one part simulation, one part real world. It was immediately called off after NORAD received word from NEADS that the Federal Aviation Administration had evidence of a hijacking. All simulated information (so called "injects") were purged from computer screens at NORAD headquarters in Colorado. On receiving news of the attacks, the Russians promptly canceled their exercise as well..............