NC county announces curfew as nearly 40,000 customers remain without power after 2 substations damaged by gunfire

[Scott]

 

 

Authorities have announced a mandatory curfew in a North Carolina county where around 40,000 customers lost power after two power substations were damaged by gunfire Saturday night.

The county will implement a mandatory curfew from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m., starting Sunday night, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said at a news conference Sunday.

Municipality and county officials “have formed a plan for the night and the next few nights that we may be out of power.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/us/power-outage-moore-county-criminal-investigation/index.html

[pgrahmm]

Yep - EV's are going to make it easy for acts of terrorism to completely shut down  entire countries....

[Credo]

13 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Yep - EV's are going to make it easy for acts of terrorism to completely shut down  entire countries....

You seem to have missed the point of the article.  It appears that the sabotage may be linked to a protest against a drag show that was being conducted.  The drag show continued in spite of the outage.   

 

[Scott]

What to Know About the North Carolina Power Outages

A power outage in Central North Carolina over the weekend has upended daily life, prompting officials to open at least one shelter and impose a nightly curfew potentially through the week while authorities investigate what left an entire county in the dark.

 

The outages in Moore County, about 90 miles east of Charlotte, have drawn the attention of state officials, including Gov. Roy Cooper, who said at a news conference Monday that the attack was intentional and damaged the entire community.

 

Here’s what we know so far.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-north-carolina-power-outages-192603014.html