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]

DC’s 911 line suddenly shuts down Sunday morning
DC 911 outage caused by equipment failure, but investigation continues
An equipment failure knocked out the District’s 911 service for more than 90 minutes overnight, city officials said Sunday morning

The outage began about 11:35 p.m. and lasted until 1:15 a.m., officials said. In that time, calls were routed to two 10-digit phone numbers established as a backup.

Officials ruled out the possibility that the outage was a result of an outside hack or malicious activity, but do not know why the equipment failed. System engineers were brought in to diagnose the issue early Sunday.

“We know exactly what happened. But we don’t know exactly why that happened to our system,” said Chris T. Geldart, director of the District’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. “We are able to rule out the possibility of nefarious activities or some kind of hack into our system.”

Officials said between 300 and 350 service calls are normally received in the timespan for which the outage lasted. Calls to the backup lines totaled about 40 — with D.C. Fire and EMS receiving all but five of them, according to officials.
“Right now we don’t have an accurate count of amount of calls that we missed,” said Karima Holmes, director of the D.C. Office of Unified Communications.

Geldart said the 911 facility itself never lost power. Rather, components routing power to the systems all went down at the same time, he said.
“That’s what we’re investigating – as to why that happened,” he said. “This is not a normal type of outage that you would see in the system...”

Source and full story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dcs-911-line-suddenly-shuts-do...

[M. Difato]

Direct flight to Toronto changes 3 planes, ends with emergency landing

Aug 25, 2016, http://13wham.com/news/top-stories/direct-flight-to-toronto-changes...
Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) - It was supposed to be a quick flight to Toronto. It turned out to be anything but that.

A group of passengers on board a ExpressJet flight had to make an emergency landing in Rochester while traveling from Newark Liberty International Airport to Toronto Pearson International Airport Thursday.

Passengers told 13WHAM News that they were on three planes Thursday. All of the planes were for Express Jet, which is a regional airline affiliated with United Airlines.

"The longest day of my life," said Elie Chemtob, a passenger from New Jersey. "Two emergency landings mechanical failure smoke on a plane, both planes chased by ambulance fire engine while landing. Never saw this in my life. I had one emergency landing and I must have taken thousands of flights. Two in one day is just unheard of."

The first plane departed from Newark, but had to return to the airport a short time later for unspecified reasons. The passengers were then transferred to a second plane, all boarded, and then were told they had to depart that plane. A reason was not given for this departure either.

All the passengers then boarded a third plane, an Embraer 145, which left Newark and made it to Rochester airspace. Unfortunately the 50-passenger plane then filled with smoke, so the plane had to make an emergency landing at the Greater Rochester International Airport.

Lee Hazan was also onboard the flight.

"I was fast asleep and woke up to the smell of smoke," Hazan said. "I leaned over to the flight attendant and asked if this was normal. And she noticed smoke in the back as well as the front."

Upon landing, the passengers were let off the plane. Hazan told 13WHAM News as he was departing the plane that one of the flight attendants asked him for help.

"I wasn't scared until she started asking me to help her assist," Hazan said. "That's when it got real!"

Hazan and Chemtob were so fed up with their thrice-failed plans to travel to Toronto that they simply decided to rent a vehicle and drive back to Newark, New Jersey.

Andy Moore, deputy director for the Greater Rochester International Airport, said the plane had cockpit issues and it filled with smoke.

Moore said United is working with the passengers right now to figure out how to move forward.

ExpressJet released a statement Thursday afternoon in relation to the errors.

ExpressJet flight 4199-25 from Newark to Toronto, operating as United Express, returned to Newark earlier today due to a mechanical issue.
We accommodated our customers on another aircraft and the flight re-departed for Toronto this afternoon and we apologize for the inconvenience.

[M. Difato]

After delays due to radar outage, flights at South Florida's airports resume normal operations

 Aug 25 2016, http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sfl-ground-stop-airports-20160825-...

Air traffic in and out of South Florida was disrupted for at least two hours Thursday after a power outage shut down the radar system used by the Federal Aviation Administration to control arriving and departing flights, officials said.

Affected were flights to and from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and Miami International airports as well as South Florida satellite airports, according to federal officials.

During the power outage, eight flights to Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International and six flights to Miami International were diverted to other airports, FAA officials said.

“We had flight delays averaging one hour,” affecting approximately 65 flights, beginning at about 11 a.m., according to Greg Meyer, a spokesman for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International. Among those flights were 33 departures and 36 arrivals, he said.

Delays were also reported at Miami International Airport.

Flights began taking off and landing about 12:45 p.m. Thursday, officials said.

The FAA issued a ground stop for flights into the two busy airports after a power outage at the Miami Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON). Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center took over the airspace normally handled by the TRACON to handle flights that are in local airspace, according to FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.

Bergen said the power outage was not related to a fire Tuesday in a Florida Power & Light substation in west Miami-Dade County that knocked out power to several thousand customers.

Although planes waiting to take off were backed up on the runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International at 1 p.m., Meyer said normal operations were resuming.

In a statement, Bergen said that FAA technicians had returned all systems to service at Miami Tower/TRACON by 1 pm., and operations were returning to normal.

“The facility is operating on generator power with commercial power available as a back-up,” Bergen said. “We are investigating the source of the commercial power outage.”

At 12:30 p.m., flight controllers began accepting arrivals with increased spacing of 30 miles between flights, Bergen said, while departing flights were leaving with 20 miles spacing between them.

Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sfl-ground-stop-airports-20160825-...

[M. Difato]

10000 homes, businesses had no power after substation fire
 Aug 23 2016,  http://thelakeandeswave.com/2016/08/24/10000-homes-businesses-had-n...

Officials say about 10,000 Miami-area homes and businesses were left without power following a fire at a Florida Power & Light substation.
No injuries have been reported.
Firefighters were using a ladder truck to douse the flames. Around 5:30 p.m., about 80 percent of the fire was contained.
The substation is located just north of Miami International Airport.
"The good thing is that no one was injured; we were able to respond in an coordinated manner and extinguish the fire safely, " Lay said.
People in the area reported hearing an explosion moments before seeing the smoke and flames, but McGrath said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The fire caused an interruption in power for at least 10,700 Florida Power & Light customers initially.
At 6 p.m., the number of people without power was reduced to around 1,600.
Milam Dairy Road between Northwest 58th Street and Highway 934 was closed as a result of the fire. The Palmetto Expressway remained open but exit ramps were clogged and northbound traffic was snarled.

[M. Difato]

Major transformer fire causes road closures in downtown D.C.

August 16, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/major-transforme...
A fire that broke out around midnight Monday in electrical equipment below the sidewalk at 18th and L streets NW caused that intersection to be closed during Tuesday’s morning rush hour, authorities said.

Drivers were advised to avoid the area.

Flames and thick smoke billowed from an underground vault early Tuesday just outside a clothing store and an office building.
The flames leaped about 10 feet into the air above a street still glistening with moisture from Monday night’s rain. The blaze appeared to break out near the southwest corner of the intersection, which is near both Connecticut Avenue and the K Street corridor.

The D.C. Fire and EMS department described the blaze as a major transformer fire.

Crews from Pepco arrived around 1 a.m. at the scene and cut power to the device.

By 2:30 a.m., D.C. firefighters said in a Twitter message that the fire had been extinguished and their units had left the scene. No one was injured in the incident.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known and crews were still “assessing the situation,” according to Pepco spokesman Marcus Beal. However, transformers can build up large quantities of heat. Summer air conditioning operations may place high demands on transformers, which step down voltages from those used with feeder and transmission lines to those used for interior wiring.

By Tuesday morning, about 100 Pepco customers were without power. Most of those were office buildings in the area. Beal said Tuesday morning that there was no estimated time for when the power would be restored.

[casey a]

power outage in D.C. & Seattle, also.

DC - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/07/08/2500-homes-a...

Seattle - http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/2015/07/08/power-outages-hit-c...

[casey a]

United Airlines flights grounded across the U.S. because of a computer system malfunction.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/united-airlines-passengers-s...

[casey a]

Glitch at the International Space Station on Tuesday caused its position in orbit to change  http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/399458/glitch_at_the_int...

[Andrey Eroshin]

Power cut halts Belgian airspace until at least 4 p.m.

27.05.15. An electrical failure at Belgium air traffic control forced the closure of airspace above Belgium on Wednesday morning, Eurocontrol said in a statement. The regional airspace will remain shut until at least 4 p.m. local time, the Brussels Airport authority and Eurocontrol both said.
http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/05/27/power-cut-halts-belgian-airspace-u...