Power outages

March 18, 2006 - 18:42
Originally uploaded by Hugo*

We've been having periodic power outages here in Portsmouth the last week or so. And with the heat, it's been unbearable.

But I don't mind, too much.

I'm helping cause them.

A group of us have been hitting electric infrastructure, causing power outages. Our main purpose hasn't been to make our own lives unbearable, but to hit the Republic forces. I've talked about the former Portsmouth Federal Building before, but there are other former federal facilities in Portsmouth that we've been trying to hit. They are, after all, centers of gravity in the old Clausewitzian paradigm. There's what used to be the naval hospital, and there's the old naval shipyard, and across town is the old coast guard base.

I went out the other night to help strike at the power leading to the old naval hospital. There's still a hospital there, but it also serves as a detention facility. We had this notion that with the power down, some of the detainees might be able to get loose. Well, we took down the power... but didn't figure they'd have the whole place rigged with back-up generators.

The bad news is that the neighborhood outside the facility doesn't have back-up generators; well, at least the whole neighborhood isn't rigged for back-up.

Sucks to have no power when the heat climbs to over a hundred.

Of course, at least I'm still alive. A couple of us weren't so lucky. A buddy of mine, I'll call him Paul H., cut his fuse a little too short and became engulfed in the explosion of the substation. And, as we were heading back to the rendezvous point, we came upon a fairly substantial patrol from the ISF. Randy was shot in the throat. I was able to evade by actually jumping in Scott's Creek...er, it's not called Scott's Creek anymore... now it's Nu'man Creek.

When I got home, dawn was just breaking, and I looked like a drowned rat. But at least I was alive.