Duke Energy: All equipment damaged in NC shooting now fixed

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM 47 minutes ago

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Duke Energy said Wednesday it has completed repairs on substation equipment damaged in shootings over the weekend that cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes and it expects power to be fully restored by midnight.

In a statement on its website, the energy company said all of the equipment damaged in an attack on two North Carolina substations Saturday has been fixed or replaced. The company said Moore County customers will gradually get power back throughout the day as it finishes testing and completes restoration safely.

“To avoid overwhelming the electrical system we will bring power back on gradually, with the goal of having the majority of customers restored before midnight tonight,” the statement said.

As of late Wednesday morning, about 14,000 customers were without power in the county, according to poweroutage.us. That’s down from a peak of more than 45,000 customers without power over the weekend.



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[yankee87]

1. Terrorist did this

Anyone hear if the terrorists were caught?

[Hope22]

2. No but it sounds like the Sheriff might.

It appears he prayed it out with a person familiar to the event.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17434623

[Hope22]

3. It appears there are photos of the Sheriff and this woman

On social media. It seems they know each other in some capacity.

[Jamastiene]

16. From years ago too.

They've known each other for a while, it seems. I bet they never catch whoever did it....they probably are not really looking because they know and don't want to arrest a buddy.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

23. It's getting investigated by the FBI and the State Police,

so there's a pretty good chance the terrorists will be caught, people do talk.

[azureblue]

15. it's a southernism

It means get the truth out of her (confessing in prayer). In some other parts of the country it would be said as "have a little discussion".

[Jamastiene]

21. "God works in mysterious ways" is a dog whistle.

In this area, they use that when they did something bad to someone and use religion as their cover. They rarely use that any other way here. It means they got away with something.

[IronLionZion]

7. If the terrorists are white, then it's mental illness

[Yonnie3]

4. I have been posting updates in the North Carolina group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/106911325 today
https://www.democraticunderground.com/106911321 yesterday

I'm not going to update further. They are down to 5,234 services out. About every 20 minutes or so the total goes down.

[Jamastiene]

17. They can't turn it all back on at one time.

It would be too much at once. So, they will probably time it and turn parts back on from time to time to get it all back up and running.

[Yonnie3]

22. Yes, you are correct

it is mentioned in my NC group post

Outage restoration update for Moore County (12/7) >

All substation equipment damaged from recent vandalism has either been fully repaired or replaced. Once we have completed all necessary testing, the gradual restoration of service to those Moore County communities still without power will begin. To avoid overwhelming the electrical system we will bring power back on gradually, with the goal of having the majority of customers restored before midnight tonight.

[Marthe48]

5. might be a good idea to get motion activated cameras

added to the substations. Rachel Maddow talked about a similar incident that happened in Ca. on April 16, 2013, for which no arrrests have been made.

If domestic terrorists are going to target the power grid, communication systems and other infrastructure, we need to defend it better. And if anyone one is caught, they and they families responsible for the cost of repair or replacement, plus prison. Also, track ammo sales. Or maybe camo sales.

[RussBLib]

6. Sounds like Germany has a similar problem

Taking out parts of the power grid were in the plans of these German blockheads. Bunch of arrests. I would bet our FBI is watching some of these groups. And some are going to jail already.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/europe/germany-far-right-arrests-grm-intl/index.html

[IronLionZion]

8. Russia went after Ukraine's power grid

it's standard for war. Cybercriminals hit an American oil pipeline last year.

America's infrastructure is more vulnerable to terrorism than most Americans are willing to admit.

[Marthe48]

11. I worked in the public library in 1998

and read articles at the time about how vulnerable our infrastructure is, how vulnerable our online security is. I don't think anything has changed since then. Creating actually physical protection, that would emply people to install, would be a plus in many ways.

Of course, anyone hired to install would have to be rigidly background checked. So many layers, so many disturbed people

[littlemissmartypants]

9. So they can shoot the cameras, too? I wish I thought that would help.

But I think it's going to take some out of the box thinking to create a comprehensive solution. I thought of cameras, too. But in reality I don't think that would work.

It's going to be interesting to see what they do to preemptively protect against these kinds of attacks in the future. I hope no one died! People on oxygen were the first people that crossed my mind.

[Marthe48]

10. How about camera drones?

Random paths, blue in the day, black at night.

I bet there are ways to make an invisible fence that would trigger a remote alarm, either by detecting weight, or motion, or even whatever kind of metal is in guns or ammo.

[Chainfire]

12. The only way to stop this kind of terrorism is to catch the terrorists and make examples of them.

The security at the tens of thousands of substations is putting a fence around them to keep people from coming in and electrocuting themselves. Many of them are remote, and successful firearm attacks can be mounted from hundreds of yards away. What a man can do in thirty seconds can take thousands of man-hours to fix. I suspect that the only way that the outlaws, who shot up the station in question, will be caught is if they brag about it.

A good way to prevent such actions is to go after all of the armed right-wing militias and put their sorry asses in prison. We make war on street gangs, lets make war on armed militias and all of those who support them.

[Marthe48]

13. The feds have gone after Mafia

Black Panthers, Native Americans such as Leonard Peltier, and other groups and individuals that were a threat or perceived as a threat, with no qualms.

I would like to have them go after the armed rw domestic terrorists and weed them out the same as they did with the Mafia in the 60s, and people of color in the 70s.

[Jamastiene]

19. You are correct, but have you noticed,

they call all other gangs, gangs, but they call white gangs, "militias." They are still gangs, if you really think about it. They actually seem way more dangerous but they still work like gangs.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. I'm not really smart enough to figure it out, ironically.

I did here there's a reward out now for information but I don't remember for how much...

People are so evil sometimes. But I'll never really be able to wrap my mind around that. I'm just a Pollyanna I guess.

❤️

[Jamastiene]

20. Did you see the picture of the pole that held the gate up?

It was rotten at ground level and barely could have held up in a stiff wind much longer. Duke Energy has an attitude about low population areas. I doubt they would spend on maintaining or updating or even repairing their equipment if the world wasn't watching.

I've dealt with them. They literally told me even though my aunt was on their list of people who need power back faster for medical reasons, that we were low population, therefore low priority. That was during Hurricane Florence. It took them so long to get the power back on at my house, after Hurricane Florence that my aunt's health went haywire. She had been stable as long as I had the equipment to take care of her, but with no power, even with a power inverter, it was not enough. I had to send her to the hospital to try to get her taken care of. It wasn't long after that, she died. I still say she would have lived much longer without that stress.

[Marthe48]

24. I'm sorry for your loss

it sounds like you took the best care of your aunt that you could. We live in America, and nightmares like this aren't supposed to happen.

I'm for more federal regulations and enforcement, not less, of all the companies. They have gotten away with shoddy practice for too long.

[Jamastiene]

18. A small town north of Jacksonville in NC had a similar attack back in November.

They just said vandalism. They didn't say if guns were used, but it was an attack on a substation there too. This seems like test runs or something.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

25. now add some cameras