Sniper Attack on Sub-station a dry run

Trust me, The clerk will need fuel as well, So I would say befriend the owner/clerk close to your home and besides, I know that you know how to tie in a small generator to a panel in order to run a pump.

 

An owner might go along, but A clerk will not take the responsibility.

 

True, and I have an extra generator that could used that way, but the owner is the only one who WOULD make that deal. It may be different where you are, but here, no clerk would stick his neck out like that. Too easy to be out of a job.

 

True enough, I live around a small town where the owner/clerk are one in the same. More time's than not the clerk knows more about the station than the owner. Remember this, The couple of owner's that I know lean towards the sheep side when it come's to wiring a generator to a panel for power, You will do well. Heck, An i.o.u. is still legal and binding down here for 2 year's.

 

Seems to me it should have been one for one, and no caseing left behind. We call those folks "vegetarians".

 

This is the 4th report in the last two weeks they've done on the Grid. Judge Jeanine, and Neil Cavuto, both have been voicing concerns over the lack of will to spend the money to keep the power up and running!
I would hate to be a well know Politician when TSHTF!! I think Mob Hanging's will make a comeback! The report last night said there have been 13 such Attacks in the last year.

 

As always, the stated issue is never the real issue to big government types. They probably see an opportunity to grant contracts to construction companies to build 20 foot concrete walls around substations and add union security officers, then reap the kickbacks to their campaigns that come with them.

 

So many times lately I have been thinking that so much today was really only made 'legal' to feed the government's wallets(like traffic/parking violations and building codes). Nothing to do with protecting the citizens or the Constitution. I have to look into it, but there might be some county statute that says we can't live in (converted) shipping containers here. And I don't see a valid reason for it, other than the fact they are pre-engineered for durability, therefore the county won't get money for building permits and all that red tape they want people to go through when they actually build a house.

 

Building codes, are all about you not dying. Have any real doubts about that, watch the news, when Mother Nature smacks some foreign country, where codes are less, or ignored. Wind, water, earthquake, fire. Tsunami, their building fall to pieces. Ours don't. It ain't about kickbacks, or fees, it's to make sure, whoever builds your house, both knows HOW, and doesn't screw you, by going too cheap. Cheap wires burn down homes. Roofs fall in, as walls collapse. Foundations give way, or houses flood, because it sinks, or thin pipes split.
I used to run a construction crew. It ain't about charing more money, it's about keeping you alive.

 

That is your opinion, not fact. Look at the homes the pioneers built before building codes were around. They last a LOOOOOOOOONG time. And a building permit or a license(for contractors) is no guarantee of anything, especially because you're relying on the 'efficiency' of the government to mean something.

Edited addition: When our neighbors were almost done with building their house, they had a window over the kitchen sink, and the power meter reader threw a hissy fit because he didn't want them to see him read the meter, so they had to get rid of it before the county would approve it.

 

You will find abuse of power in all fields. That does not detract from it's purpose.

 

I don't know why, but my brain is on its own thing right now and feels there is an undertone of fart jokes here...

 

We lived in a few out in the Gulf,
1. They had to have a gas/fire detection system installed AND working.

2. They had to have a escape door installed in the rear and you could not BLOCK the door !