Breaking local news this evening ~ Explosion and fire at DTE Energy facility in East China Township (MI) ~
EAST CHINA, Mich. (WXYZ) – The Marine City Fire Chief says the facility is the main DTE plant. The plant is on fire and crews are working to put out the flames.
A generation unit at the St Clair Power Plant electrical generation unit has caught fire. Employees were evacuated immediately and safely. At this time, there are no known injuries at the facility. St Clair and Marine City first responders are on site and are working to contain the fire. DTE successfully invoked its emergency plant procedures and shut down all other units at the site.
No injuries, thank God, and no hint of terrorism at this point (although these days that possibility is never easily dismissed). But there are already reports of power outages in the surrounding communities. (Update 8-12-16: power supply restored to all affected areas)
Unexpected events like this can and certainly should serve as a wake-up call. We could all do with some advance planning for emergencies; our federal government not excepted. But Washington still doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the possibility of an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) devastating a large chunk of our national electric grid.
While it hasn’t been in the news much in the last few years, the very real potential for an EMP occurence – caused either by an attack or a solar flare – hasn’t gone away. In this video from CBN News Pat Robertson speaks with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry (executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security) about the threat ~
DHS is supposed to be on top of this but… yeah.
Like I said yesterday, the government that won’t protect us from illegals, terrorists, Zika – or wolves, isn’t going to concern itself much with a little EMP occurrence (no worries for them – they’ve got bunkers). BE PREPARED.
T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I. (The End Of The World As We Know It) may be on its way…
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Are you EMP-Aware?
Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I think the feds are deliberately downplaying the threat of an EMP occurrence because a.) our elitist oligarchy has enough bunker facilities stocked and ready to keep their own butts safe for a year or two; and b.) why panic the sheeple until it’s too late?
