Re: China could take down the power grid ?? How do we handle that?
Let's let this go... It was (most likely) a serious attack with folks that made plans knew where communications links were buried/routed (and possibly a second attack on their part). Probably not difficult to figure out were the fiber was, but not a couple of good old boys with a 24 pack.
Most people are hear because they want to live off grid and/or plan for outages. This is just one of may types of outages that can happen.
-Bill
Near San Francisco California: 3.5kWatt Grid Tied Solar power system+small backup genset