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Protecting the Electric Grid
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Coverica Building Auditorium
5999 Summerside, Suite 200, Dallas 75252
Our speaker will be Texas State Senator Bob Hall, who will discuss the current status of protection for the electric grid. The United States has three main electrical power grids, one that covers the western U.S., one that covers the eastern portion, and one that covers all of Texas. Protecting that grid from natural and manmade Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) incidents is high on Bob Hall’s to-do list.
EMPs are created in different ways, through solar flares and storms, or through the detonation of a nuclear device above the earth’s atmosphere, which induces a high current and “will fry everything electronic.” Senator Hall will discuss the problem, the solutions he has proposed and where those proposed solutions currently stand.
Check-in is at 6:30 and the meeting will start at 7.
A Punchbowl invitation will be sent out later this month, and we will also create a Facebook event. Meanwhile, you can RSVP by sending your name, zip code and email address to RSVP@FarNorthDallasTeaParty.org (please specify Bob Hall).
The Coverica building has plenty of parking, and the 2nd floor auditorium is huge and can be accessed either by staircase or elevator. There are two entrances, in the front and the back. From the main (front) entrance, you can go up the staircase, or bear left to take the elevator to the 2nd floor. We'd appreciate a $5 (or more) donation to help pay for the meeting room, our web site and the Punchbowl invitation system.
The doors will close at 7:30, so if you arrive after that please call the cell number we’ll provide in the Punchbowl invitation. That person will let you in. Keep in mind that once you leave, you won’t be able to reenter unless someone opens the door from the inside.
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