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20 April 2018, 20:35
[quote='Mortblanc' pid='101832' dateline='1524196556']
Opsec is dependent on what the "normal" happens to be for your area.
My area subsidizes installation of solar through the local utility. Our entire county is powered by a huge solar farm on the edge of my village. Power enough for 15,000 homes.
Where I live there are plenty of solar panels on the roofs and 2 out of 3 homes have a gen-set. Those that do not have a gen-set would be operating inverters off their vehicles or tractors as alternate power.
Most newer American vehicles have inverters built into their systems for powering electronics and tools. These days the first thing that happens in the suburbs when the power goes down is everyone runs out and hooks a power cord to their car and runs it into the house.
The noise of generators running and the use of solar powered lights would mean that the neighbors were home and nothing more. We are not much for cowering in the shadows over here.
At least that is the case when the power goes out now, don't know why it would be different long term, at least until the fuel ran out. Then it would be just the solar.
Hi MB
This again shows the difference between our home areas, you in a rural location with a low population density and us in an town with 6500 people per square mile.
We are in a nice quiet street of private houses sandwiched between two council housing estates, it’s a good area but only one house in our street has solar panels, it sticks out like a sore thumb, that’s the one that will be a target if TSHTF.
Its not case of cowering in the shadows but quietly biding time while others run around like headless chickens, and you know what happens to them.
Opsec is dependent on what the "normal" happens to be for your area.
My area subsidizes installation of solar through the local utility. Our entire county is powered by a huge solar farm on the edge of my village. Power enough for 15,000 homes.
Where I live there are plenty of solar panels on the roofs and 2 out of 3 homes have a gen-set. Those that do not have a gen-set would be operating inverters off their vehicles or tractors as alternate power.
Most newer American vehicles have inverters built into their systems for powering electronics and tools. These days the first thing that happens in the suburbs when the power goes down is everyone runs out and hooks a power cord to their car and runs it into the house.
The noise of generators running and the use of solar powered lights would mean that the neighbors were home and nothing more. We are not much for cowering in the shadows over here.
At least that is the case when the power goes out now, don't know why it would be different long term, at least until the fuel ran out. Then it would be just the solar.
Hi MB
This again shows the difference between our home areas, you in a rural location with a low population density and us in an town with 6500 people per square mile.
We are in a nice quiet street of private houses sandwiched between two council housing estates, it’s a good area but only one house in our street has solar panels, it sticks out like a sore thumb, that’s the one that will be a target if TSHTF.
Its not case of cowering in the shadows but quietly biding time while others run around like headless chickens, and you know what happens to them.