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What we know. Moore County in North Carolina remains mostly in the dark tonight after someone shot up several power substations.
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The outages are the result of intentional damage by firearms to two substations in the county, according to Moore County and Duke Energy officials.
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields, who at a Sunday afternoon press conference called the perpetrators “cowards,” announced a Sunday curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. The curfew is part of a countywide state of emergency proclamation, effective 4 p.m. Sunday.
“No group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept that they’re the ones who’ve done it, so I call them cowards,” Fields said.
In addition to the curfew, schools are closed on Monday and Tuesday. Hospitals have been affected. There was at least one wreck caused by the power outage. If things are not back to normal soon, officials are expecting cooler weather to start by the end of the week.
So who did this? No one knows yet. But they have been questioning folks.
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Fields said Sunday that state and federal investigators are looking into protesters of a Saturday drag queen show at Sunrise Theater in downtown Southern Pines, but that so far they have not been able to make that connection.
Earlier in the day Saturday, protesters had gathered outside the theater, upset about a drag show planned for the small venue later that night.
On her Facebook page, Emily Grace Rainey, an outspoken opponent of the drag show, posted an invitation to the protest at the theater. After the lights went out out, Rainey, who became known in Moore County during the pandemic for her opposition to mask mandates, posted on Facebook that, “The power is out in Moore County and I know why.”
Crazy times. I hope there was no political motivation by whoever did this.
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Meanwhile, 40K people are without power, in below freezing temps, some of them in desperate need for O2 tanks, etc.
This incident highlights how apparently two people can take out a town's power. These aren't just repairs that need to be made - they have to replace equipment which will take several days.
Our power supply, food safety, and water supply is fragile as long as people are willing to commit crimes that sabotage their communities.
The woman mentioned in the post I made earlier, Emily Grace, who has been railing against the drag show, has said on her Facebook page that the police have cleared her. I've seen nothing official on that yet. Reading her page, apparently she recently had a married man's child if I read the posts right. Being on her page makes me feel like I need to be deloused though.
“Let us supplant the idea that right-wingers shut down the power, even though we cannot confirm it, and even after the local police have stated that there is no evidence to suggest they did.”.
If Antifa had been in the area, would the media have suggested that they could have been the cause of the power outage? Doubtful.
I thought the media was supposed to report facts, not speculation?
The police literally questioned the woman about it. Not reporting that tidbit would be the media bias. She claims the police have cleared her on her Facebook page. I am not seeing this from an official source yet.
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What we know. Moore County in North Carolina remains mostly in the dark tonight after someone shot up several power substations.
In addition to the curfew, schools are closed on Monday and Tuesday. Hospitals have been affected. There was at least one wreck caused by the power outage. If things are not back to normal soon, officials are expecting cooler weather to start by the end of the week.
So who did this? No one knows yet. But they have been questioning folks.
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Fields said Sunday that state and federal investigators are looking into protesters of a Saturday drag queen show at Sunrise Theater in downtown Southern Pines, but that so far they have not been able to make that connection.
Earlier in the day Saturday, protesters had gathered outside the theater, upset about a drag show planned for the small venue later that night.
On her Facebook page, Emily Grace Rainey, an outspoken opponent of the drag show, posted an invitation to the protest at the theater. After the lights went out out, Rainey, who became known in Moore County during the pandemic for her opposition to mask mandates, posted on Facebook that, “The power is out in Moore County and I know why.”
Crazy times. I hope there was no political motivation by whoever did this.
They don't know who did it. Remember that big one in Northern California about ten years ago. Those guys had an elaborate attack, I don't think they ever got caught. Seems like a lot of risk for stopping a drag queen show, but who knows.
With a motive still unclear at this time, this is a prime candidate for a Politics or Other Controversies thread. Republicans cannot cry about the "summer or love" protests on one hand then try to ride and hide when their side does he same thing. Emily Grace, whom police questioned briefly on Saturday night, has not shied away from making public posts on her Facebook page concerning the power outage which she claims was God's work.
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I could make my FB private. I could turn off the comments. But I want Christians to see that evil exists; to look it in the face. They hate you because of Christ in you. They scorned, slandered and lied about Christ too. They will do the same to you if you dare to tell the world about Him who died for our sins. Christ is King!
I will hand her one thing. Her bonkers posts are making me see that evil does indeed exist.
Just when they were THIS close to identifying whomever planted those explosive devices at the RNC and DNC headquarters on Jan 5th 2021....
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