EMP denial

[Gerard Zwaan]

On Monday, May 11th, we had a surge of power through our house so great, that it magnified the brightness of our lightbulbs tenfold.  The lights and one of the circuits proceeded to burn out, and the surge fried anything that was plugged in—as a strong burst of magnetic energy would. Even a surge strip did not keep the cable box from being fried. This type of situation has never occurred in our home in over 50 years. The event occurred at a little after 13:00 pm CST, or 18:00 UTC. No source was found for the surge, only a fried wire, which had caused a burning smell in the home. Certainly a malfunctioning wire, more than like fried by the surge as well, would not cause a surge in power, but a reduction in it. Would the Zetas care to comment on whether we are now experiencing  EMPs from PX on a more frequent basis? If so, would it be recommended that all electronics not in use be disconnected from their power source? Space was relatively quiet, but the magnetosphere was fluctuating widely. [and from another] http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news... The cut was said to have been caused by an electrical surge. People in the area say "Smoke was coming from the electric cupboard from 86 Deansgate when the power surge hit. 4 fire engines responded to the call". Jade Barrow is a receptionist at 86 Deansgate, and said the whole building shook. She said: "The firemen explained to me that an electrical surge is like 2 magnets hitting each other. That's why it all shook because of the force."  [and from another]https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3863141%3ABlogPost... May 15. After 15 days with approximately 300 hours of missing data, it appears the uninterrupted BATSRUS RCM image feed has resumed.

Air France 447 in 2009 and Malaysia 370 and the recent Germanwings A320 are in the news because they impact the airline industry, and the blame thus placed elsewhere. To date, pilot suicide, storms, and bad pilot judgement have been used, and how is the public to know otherwise? Electric trains such as the Disney Monorail  and DC Metro crash incidents in 2009 and the recent Amtrak 188 go into investigation while talking heads murmur about safety devices or track maintenance or mechanical failure, which ultimately get the blame.  

It is only when the public is broadly affected that the public can get a hint that something else is afoot. Cell phones are regularly having disrupted service but the blame is placed on blocked access to towers or bad weather. The blackberry outage in 2008 was blamed on a software glitch. If the public is frankly being lied to, engineers responsible for maintaining equipment and the grid are not fooled. The talk has spilled over into the press, or into conversations with the public. During the Washington DC blackout, the electrical problem was described at first by the Washington Post as a “surge”. 

This is a key determinant between a failed electrical system, a simple outage, and electro-magnetic pulse. Pulse is a surge, and the sudden increase in the amount of magnetons and their associated electrons, such that equipment controlled by a steady pace of either particle flow goes into a runaway state. When equipment is guarded by surge protection, to guard against lightning strikes, it will shut down, as a brownout situation can damage equipment. But unless a lightning strike was present, there can be no excuse for a pulse or surge other than the presence of the charged tail of Planet X, aka Nibiru.  

What can the public expect? As cell phone service and cable TV via satellite continues to degrade, as airplanes increasingly crash during complete electronics failure or are forced to land with smoke in their cockpits, as electric trains surge off the tracks and brakes fail, as transformers explode at dams and on the grid, and as residential lights flicker and erratic and unexplained and spotty blackouts descend, the public can expect endless inane excuses from the establishment. The truth will be withheld because mankind is so dependent upon his electrical systems and equipment that the thought of being without is unthinkable. It is mass denial. 

Source: ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for May 23, 2015

[M. Difato]

Signal Problems, Again, Turn Subway Commute Into Nightmare

 - Problems started around 6:20 a.m. and rapidly intensified, with major delays for the peak morning commute   

 - The MTA said the delays stemmed from signal problems at the busy Herald Square station in Manhattan

 - Frantic riders desperately tried to find alternatives; two men even jumped out of a subway and tried to walk the    tracks, witnesses said

Delay-weary straphangers endured yet another morning of crippling service changes Tuesday (June 20) , with at

least one rider so desperate to escape delays he tried walking subway tracks to get to work on time, witnesses

said. Once again, signal problems appeared to be the primary cause of the nightmare...."

Source: Signal Problems, Again, Turn Subway Commute Into Nightmare | NBC Ne... http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Signal-Problems-Service-Change... 

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15358470.UPDATED__Electrical_cable_...

UPDATED: Electrical cable 'explodes' under York street, leaves 2,182 homes without power

6 20 2017

FLAMES burst from a York street after an underground electrical cable 'exploded' this morning, cutting power to more than 2,000 homes.

Part of Upper Price Street, off Scarcroft Road, has been charred by the incident,which happened earlier this morning, and alarms have been sounding all morning.

Initial reports suggested the incident was due to a gas explosion, but Northern Powergrid later confirmed the problem was caused by an underground cable.

A spokeswoman said 2,182 properties were affected by "a fault on our underground cable network" at 8.56am.

She said: "By diverting electricity through alternative routes on our network we restored power to 1,075 customers with four minutes.

"A further 834 customers were restored by 11.22am and the remaining 275 customers affected had their power restored by 12.25pm. We thank our customers for their patience."

Helen Milner, owner of The Farthings guest house in nearby Nunthorpe Avenue, said power to her business had cut out at just before 9am.

She said: "Some guests were leaving and came back and said 'I think you need to call somebody, the street opposite looks like it's exploded and there are flames coming out of it'."

Local residents phoned the emergency services, with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and North Yorkshire attending, along with Yorkshire Water and Northern Powergrid. The fire service left the scene at just after 10.30am, but police and electrical engineers remain at the scene.

The explosion burst through the road surface next to a fire hydrant access point in the road, leaving charred tarmac in the street.

The road was cordoned off by police, and City of York Council have just announced the road will remain closed until midnight on Monday, June 26, to allow emergency electricity works to be carried out.

An alternative route for diverted traffic will be signed during the works period, and traffic signs and barriers will be in place.

[M. Difato]

Smoke in cabin forces SAS plane to make emergency landing in Poland

 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-scandnvn-air-sys-emergency-landin...

 A Scandinavian Airlines Systems plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Gdansk, Poland, shortly after  takeoff on Tuesday (June 20)  due to smoke in the cabin, the airline said.

Eighty eight passengers and five crew members were evacuated upon landing and were unharmed, SAS spokesman Knut Morten Johansen said, adding that it was unclear what had caused the smoke.

The Airbus 319 had been due to fly from Gdansk to Copenhagen, and had been scheduled to arrive in the Danish capital at 0550 GMT, he said.

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[M. Difato]

Cellphone, internet outages reported across the U.S.

 Last Updated Jun 19, 2017 10:16 PM EDT, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cell-phone-internet-outages-reported-ac...

 TUCSON, Ariz. -- If you're having trouble making calls or connecting to the internet on your cellphone, you're  not alone.

 CBS Tucson affiliate KOLD-TV reports several major cellphone providers --  including Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile -- were having service issues on Monday.

The website downdetector.com, which compiles users' reports of outages, posted maps highlighting a number of different areas with problems:

• Verizon outage map: http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/ 
• T-Mobile  outage map: http://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/map/
• Sprint outage map: http://downdetector.com/status/sprint/map
• AT&T outage map: http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/

Spectrum customers were also having difficulty Monday, CBS affiliate WNCN-TV in North Carolina reports. Officials from the company said a backbone fiber line was cut in the city of Wilmington and more than a dozen crews worked to repair the line.

The station also reports that Sprint customers were also affected which officials attributed to an issue with a local exchange provider.

A Verizon spokesperson issued a statement to WNCN explaining that a connectivity issue caused service interruption for some customers in the cities of Wilmington, Jacksonville and New Burn in North Carolina.

"Our engineers worked with our vendor partner to resolve the issue and service was restored by approximately 3:30 pm Eastern this afternoon," Verizon said in a statement.

[Yvonne Lawson]

Investigations continuing as explosion causes power to go out in Beverley town centre. Location is near Hull, East Yorkshire UK.

Investigations are continuing this morning after an "explosion" in Beverley caused nearly 160 properties power to suddenly cut out.

Witnesses reported hearing the "huge" bang at about 9pm on Saturday night, with town centre shops electricity failing.

Northern Powergrid confirmed the explosion was in a substation in Toll Gavel, in the town centre.

Engineers were called to the scene and had restored power to all 159 properties affected via a generator in the early hours the following morning.

A spokesman for the company said: "We have got all customers back on supply via generators by about 1.30am.

"We are still investigating what caused it at the moment. There will be further investigations to be carried out to get that replaced or repaired depending on what we find out.

"But everyone is back up with a supply through a generator."

Residents said people spilled out onto the town centre's streets after hearing the loud bang.

"Heard a huge explosion which scared the crap out of me," one said.

"It was so loud it brought everybody out onto street and set alarms off.

Source: http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/investigations-continuing-as-explosi...

[Scott]

Navy plane passengers safe after emergency landing (June 16, 2017)

A dozen people are safe after billowing smoke in a naval aircraft cabin prompted an emergency landing at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport earlier this afternoon.

A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion originally headed south with 12 people on board landed safely in Medford about 2:30 p.m. Friday, some 25 minutes after it made a distress call, according to Airport Director Bern Case.

“They had quite a bit of smoke on board,” Case said.

http://www.mailtribune.com/news/20170616/navy-plane-passengers-safe...

https://www.planespotters.net/photo/262651/162315-us-navy-lockheed-...

[M. Difato]

Fault Causes Island-Wide Blackout

 http://www.tribune242.com/news/2017/jun/16/fault-causes-island-wide...

 BAHAMAS Power and Light yesterday blamed Thursday’s (June 15) island-wide outage on a “cable failure” and  reassured customers that the utility provider would find “immediate solutions to this problem and long-term s  strategies to prevent a recurrence.”

According to a statement on the company’s Facebook page, the power outage occurred just before 3pm and by 4pm, Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) said the company began restoration efforts.

Bahamas Power and Light Company Limited has begun restorations in New Providence following an island-wide outage just before 3pm on Thursday, June 15,” the statement said.

Early indications show that a cable fault was responsible for the system failure; however, BPL will carry out a complete investigation once its system has stabilised. BPL apologises to its customers and assures them that it is working to find immediate solutions to this problem and long-term strategies to prevent a recurrence.”

Scores of BPL customers expressed their anger and frustration on the island-wide outage on the company’s Facebook page.

One customer wrote: “Please educate me why you are the only utility company (that) doesn’t reimburse for not receiving full service? Why? This is crap. I pay you guys in full every month and in the summer the power goes off frequently with no compensation. It is hot in case you didn’t realise. I have been hearing about these generators and equipment for years. It’s not hard to do better.”

Another person wrote: “Apology not accepted, too many inconveniences and inconsistencies with no compensation and/or reimbursements yet y’all quick to turn off a consumer’s power if their bill is over a hundred dollars. You really need to do better.”

Last month, BPL expressed “confidence” in its readiness to take on the peak summer months with its higher power generation capability.

At the time, BPL said while it expected the needed power generation this summer to peak at 255 megawatts, its current generation availability is over 345mw. This is 90mw higher than the demand expected this summer, BPL said..."  

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Hazmat crews called out after chemicals slip into air following power outage in Akron

 http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2017/06/hazmat_crews_calle...

 AKRON, Ohio -- A hazardous materials crew responded to a chemical leak that sprung after a power outage in  Akron.

 The incident began about 1 a.m. (June 16) at Emerald Performance Materials at 240 W. Emerling Ave. in South Akron, Akron Fire Department spokesman Mike Brooks said.

The plant was evacuated and all of the workers were accounted for. Brooks said it appears that no one was hurt.

The vapor released in the air contained acrylic nitrile and butudiene which are both flammable and toxic, Brooks said.

Readings taken at 4:30 a.m. found no traces of the chemicals in the air surrounding the plant, Brooks said.

Nearby residents were not evacuated, Brooks said.

The Akron Metro RTA shut down its bus service temporarily and was up and running again just before 5 a.m.

[Tracie Crespo]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/britains-heathrow-airport-says-bagga...

Britain's Heathrow Airport says baggage handling disrupted at two terminals

LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest airport London Heathrow said some passengers might have to travel without their bags on Thursday after an issue with its baggage system affected Terminals 3 and 5.

"Heathrow is currently experiencing an issue with its baggage systems which is affecting airlines operating from Terminal 3 and Terminal 5. Other terminals are unaffected," Heathrow said in a statement.

"This may mean passengers will travel without their bags, and we advise them to pack essential items in their hand luggage."

Heathrow said it was investigating the issue and would get the system running again as soon as possible.

Heathrow suffered massive disruption last month after a power surge knocked out British Airways' IT system, stranding 75,000 passengers over a holiday weekend.

(Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by Kate Holton)

[Yvonne Lawson]

Brussels airport EVACUATED - thousands face travel chaos as terminal plunged into darkness

BRUSSELS Airport has been evacuated leading to flight delays and cancellations and travel chaos for thousands of passengers.

Horrified travellers  have complained of being left in "total darkness" at Zaventem International in the Belgian capital.

Many others have been told they can not leave and planes have been grounded as a result.

Local media is reporting that the airport has been paralysed by the electrical outage.

Passenger Inge Meensel told radio2.be: “We were supposed to leave at 6am but we are still outside the entrance. There is a power failure.

“It’s weird. Everybody thinks immediately of a terrorist attack, but that is not the case.”

Roads around the airport are gridlocked with cars and buses unable to drop people off because of the huge number of passengers waiting to get in.

Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/817344/Brussels-airport-evacuat...

[M. Difato]

Major blackout hits Seoul, Gyeonggi

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/common/vpage-pt.asp?categorycode=28...

 A major blackout hit southwestern Seoul, Sunday (June 10), inconveniencing more than 190,000 households   in the capital  and southern Gyeonggi Province.

 According to the Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and local governments, the blackout happened at 12:53  a.m. following a malfunction at the Yeongseo power substation in Gwangmyeong, and lasted almost two hours.

KEPCO said emergency crews finished work at 1:15 p.m. to restore power through the nearby Sinyangjae substation.

Affected regions included Gwangmyeong City in Gyeonggi Province and Guro-gu, Gumcheon-gu, Gwanak-gu and Yeongdeungpo-gu in Seoul. Some areas have yet to have their supply restored.

Almost 200 traffic lights stopped working, causing confusion to drivers and pedestrians. However, with police controlling traffic through hand signals, no accidents were reported.

There were 410 calls to police and fire stations for help from people trapped inside elevators.

Emergency calls also included reports on electricity sparks near transformers.

More than 30 teams were sent to two locations where residents mistook smoke from an emergency power supply system as signs of a fire.

Many emergency reports were made from Techno Mart in Sindorim, Guro, Seoul. A wedding scheduled there at 1 p.m. was delayed, and people left the building without incident.

Moviegoers inside Lotte Cinema, Gasan, demanded refunds after movie theaters lost power.

Local governments received calls from restaurants and other shopping malls saying they suffered financial losses after refrigerated food went bad.

Other calls included some credit card readers failing.

KEPCO Chairman Cho Hwan-ik issued an apology.

"KEPCO is wholly responsible for the blackout and we offer our apologies for causing inconvenience to the public who had been enjoying their weekend," he said.

"We will operate an emergency control center to monitor the situation and swiftly compensate people for financial losses," he added.

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