20 gas explosions in Massachusetts just now!!!

that the most expensive few pounds EVER !

No solar eruptions/flares. Coronal hole and solar wind, yes, which occurs regularly.

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This is a real possibility.


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Something is not right.

This is hardly on the news....anywhere. This is a massive emergency.

Someone in the media had to of sent out a mass email saying downplay this for some reason. Makes you wonder if it was human error then the contracting company must be minority or owned by a dem politician.

If it was terrorism well then we all know we will never hear much about it.

Bullshit!

would have happened in NC too.

Hopefully this was not a terror attack. Have a look at the Related Threads at the bottom of the page. It seems Massachusetts has had a problem like this before.

Is it true nobody has died? If so, that is a miracle in itself. I hope everyone is okay.

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from 2012

I don't expect the the "authorities" to admit a terrorist attack, even if it was.

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this has been a terrorism plot for over 2 years.

This is a pre-planned timed event to coincide with florence from one of our many adversaries.

Iran

so there's always enough room for a conspiracy theory? That's brilliant. the perfect crime. again and again until the US is broke and completely vulnerable.

keep your bugout bags packed.

yep.


the chemical weapons in Idbid hasn't happened yet...

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There is an Imam in Boston who is in charge of the whole operation in the US. He is over 8 other prominent Imams who are calling the shots of terrorism cells.

Be aware, be prepared.

On a system that large, it's quite likely that the main stepdown pressure regulator would be controlled with a PID loop via a PLC.

Most of those systems have zero security features, anyone with Allen Bradley software could do whatever they wanted with a few clicks if they had access to the network, which isn't necessarily easy since most of these SCADA systems are on isolated subnets... but bust a lock and gain physical access and it would be a matter of plugging in a cable and you're online.

But to look at the logic and actually know what to do, you'd need knowledge of the system to be able to really wreak havoc.

But still you would have to imagine that there would be rupture disks somewhere that would burst, or excess flow valves that would slam shut when the high pressure gas rocketed into the low pressure pipe.

This really shouldn't have been able to happen on a well engineered system, no matter how knowledgeable a person who was at the controls.

Last Edited by R. Wordsworth on 09/13/2018 10:43 PM

ASPEN, Colo. — Iranian hackers have laid the groundwork to carry out extensive cyberattacks on U.S. and European infrastructure and on private companies, and the U.S. is warning allies, hardening its defenses and weighing a counterattack, say multiple senior U.S. officials.

Despite Iran having positioned cyber weapons to carry out attacks, there is no suggestion an offensive operation is imminent, according to the officials, who requested anonymity in order to speak.

Cyber threats have been a major theme of the 2018 Aspen Security Forum, with administration officials from Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein all warning of the pervasive danger from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.

Yes it's a nbc link but...

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Truth. You nailed it.

Do we not have any fail safes in place? WTH!

Didn't the main hacker guy try to blow up Bruce Willis in "Live free or Die Hard" by over pressurizing the gas pipeline?

Has anyone checked to see if Timothy Olyphant was in Boston today???

18 year old dead.

This is a test, I repeat this is a test.

This why I call bullshit. If a High pressure line were attached to a low pressure line fine. When the multiple low pressure lines experienced ruptures there should be an immediate drop in pressure as seen on the high pressure line. Technology attached to the high pressure lines should recognize this pressure drop and immediately shut down.

There is much more to this story that we currently have.

they got exposed for what was really going on, so
they backed-out.

Lets just hope it stops here and no other communities are hit by this type of attack.

We all need to be very prepared for the worst case scenario's in our communities and keep the panic down to minimum.

Local Sheriffs and LEO's need to also get organized with trusted community members for plans of action ASAP! If you leave your community out it will destroy your plans and cause more problems and possibly overwhelm your community.

American citizen's be a part of the solution not the problem.

Prayer for all involved for safety and quick returns to their homes!!

before 911 the City Plans for Buffalo were stolen from a small break in when things were still on a manual system. All the waterworks for Niagra Falls, power systems, everything they needed to understand the controls and systems in the US.

But the high pressure line has a much greater capacity than the low pressure line, it may have been able to over pressurize the low line using only a small amount of it's nominal capacity.

Let's say that the high pressure line trips when it goes from 100 psi to 80 psi in 5 seconds. Perhaps the pressure drop when the line was opened was only to 85 psi and then returned to normal when the line was filled, and even with the pipes that burst... they may only have been a small percent extra flow on a high pressure backbone line.

And there are even higher pressure lines out there, I know gas turbine power plants are fed by 300 to 4000 psi lines, filling a small local low pressure grid may just be a drop in the bucket for them that would go unnoticed until it was too late.

Yep it smells fishy!! Patriots be on alert!!

look for your gas cut off valves.

but if they wanted to sabotage it?