#electrical outage

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ATTENTION PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER

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You're likely already familiar with the effects of an EMP on electrical components (power grid failure and so on), but what effect does an EMP actually have on people? Fortunately, humans are not very good conductors of electricity and are generally resistant to any effects of an EMP. However, if you are exposed to an EMP that is strong enough, the human body might experience some disruptions. Is It fatal? The key to EMP and damage to the body is the duration of the pulse. A quick pulse would pass right through. Making an EMP attack probability to be unlikely to happen. To cause damage would require a sustained magnetic field that is constantly increasing in magnitude, thus causing current flow for at least a few milliseconds. But then, this would no longer be a pulse. Some people claim that an EMP can short out a pacemaker, but there are no reports of actual pacemaker failure directly attributable to it. Some research suggests that strong EMP may have a substantial effect on the cognitive processes of the left hemisphere of the human brain. This research suggests that it can temporarily short-circuit the brain's logical circuitry causing temporary problems with thinking and memory. Other theoretical effects could be: Cellular mutations Nervous system damage Internal burns Brain damage Government technical threat assessments conclude that EMP passes through the human body so fast, current cannot begin flowing in your body to cause harm. So don’t be worried that EMP can harm you. Your body should be fine. Instead, focus on protecting your electrical and electronic systems. Related Resources: Build a Faraday Cage to Prevent EMP Damage to Electronics Preparing for the Next Inevitable Power Outage Do Cell Phones Cause Health Problems? [Author's Reference Link]

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U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid

The Trump administration is using new authority to take more aggressive digital action in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities.

American strategy has shifted more toward offense, officials say, with the placement of potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that had never been tried before. It is intended partly as a warning, and partly to be poised to conduct cyberstrikes if a major conflict broke out between Washington and Moscow.

Remember how the corporate media was ridiculing Venezuela's charges of U.S. attacks on its power grid just a few months ago?

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7 Ways to Keep Your House Warm Without Power

While the spring season may mark the end of frigid temperatures and snow, spring presents it’s own unique challenges. The Spring season is often accompanied by heavy rainfall, severe thunderstorms, and moderately brisk temperatures. To prepare for the possibility of a power outage, it’s important to become familiar with how to keep a house warm without power.

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The DRBC offices were closed last Thursday as electrical outages forced a shutdown. That’s not much of a problem, but there is a solution. It’s natural gas.

http://naturalgasnow.org/drbc-kept-power-last-thursday/

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A customer had their computer plugged into a surge protector. There was a lightning strike at their house and it shorted all of their electricity out. We received the computer a few days after because the system was acting out of the norm. The computer started looping through the boot process and would never fully boot up. We tested all of the components. The electrical short caused the motherboard in the computer to fail completely. We were able to get 100% of the data onto a backup drive for the customer. 

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Across eastern US, with no power, people struggle

By Matthew Barakat, AP, Jul 2, 2012 SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP)--Across the eastern U.S., people are struggling through a third day of sweltering heat with no electricity. Their groceries are long gone, either used up in weekend cookouts or left to spoil in useless refrigerators. The usual frozen treats people turn to on a hot summer day have melted away.

The basics of daily life are difficult: Washing machines won't work without electricity, leading to some creative wardrobes. Bottled water has gone from luxury to necessity for people whose underground wells aren't pumping.

Storms that swept across the area late Friday left 22 people dead, and nearly 1.8 million people remained without power Monday evening. Utility companies say it could be days before the lights are on again.

Not a whole lot was functioning at the Springvale Terrace nursing home and senior center in Silver Spring: No air conditioning, no cable, no automatic doors for elderly residents using walkers who otherwise struggle to navigate them.

Window air-conditioner units were brought in to cool rooms, and director Antonio Hill and his staff had to empty spoiling food from refrigerators and freezers in nursing units--sometimes over the loud objections of residents who insisted their melting ice cream was still good.

Generators provided electricity in common rooms, where TVs showed movies on old VHS tapes, including the 1932 classic "Grand Hotel."

Residents coped as best they could. Ninety-three-year-old Margaret Foster and 95-year-old Helen Ofsharick passed the time outside.

"You wouldn't want to live this way more than a day or so," Foster said. "There are sick people here, or people who don't think too well. They need help."

Great Falls is one of the wealthiest areas in the nation, in Virginia just outside Washington, with mansions spread across secluded, wooded lots. But because the city is so sparsely populated, it's not a top priority for crews trying to get as many people back online as quickly as possible.

"Great Falls always seems to be the first to go down and the last one to come back up," said resident Patrick Muir, a patent attorney who was raiding water bottles from his powerless office to supply his home, which is on a well that was not operating. His 8-year-old daughter Mary accompanied him, speaking hopefully of a beach trip to escape the heat. Dad said it was under consideration.

Author Thompson, a retired truck driver, said he's had to navigate a labyrinth of roads to get patients to the Baltimore VA Medical Center. He's a volunteer who drives people to their appointments.

"It's been a royal pain today because going out, trying to pick patients up, there are roads closed, lights out, trees still down all over the place. You have to back track all over the place just to pick people up," said Thompson, 54.

His electricity was back on by Saturday night, so he had to cope without air conditioning for only about 24 hours. How did he do it?

"Sweat, that's basically it," Thompson said. A neighbor borrowed a generator and ran power cords to nearby houses so folks in the neighborhood could run their refrigerators and save their groceries.

University of Maryland Latin American Studies Professor Sandra Cypess traveled four miles with her laptop computer from her dark Potomac, Md., home to a Panera Bread store in Rockville to find the restaurant's power on, but its Wi-Fi down. Cypess said she'd have to find another place to do her work, annotating some book chapters.

She said her tree-filled neighborhood often loses power during storms.

"It's not a one-time occurrence," she said. "Winter storms, summer storms, it happens."