The Black Sky Event Plan

[Jaymoss]

Either el gov is expecting something like a cyber attack knocking out infrastructure or they are trying to use fear to get control again like with Covid


using the BBC for their propaganda machine as usual

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5ynnj05z8no

Or…

It’s explaining Contingency Planning, which is nothing new if you’ve been part of a large organisation - in my last couple of jobs running IT Departments, we would be part of (every five years) of a Business Continuity organisation-wide exercise, to see if our plans for Business Continuity actually worked, and if not, where did we have to tweak them.

For example, what would we do if one of the two major sites lost power (even though we had stand-by generators on both sites, there was no way they could power dozens of buildings), or, what would we do if there was a major transportation incident, and people couldn’t get to site for a couple of days…

IMHO, it’s not ’using fear’ to try and let people understand we live in an interconnected world, and the impact of losing some of the building blocks, it’s educational.

YMMV

[TheDaddy]

We saw what happens in France if the Internet plays up, all their food ended up in the bin, seems like there is a grown up in charge, hoping for the best and preparing us for the worst

[Jaymoss]

But why has it been spread over a number of weeks and now a BBC report on it. It does not make sense to me that they would dribble information out instead of just doing it properly and officially all in one go it is bound to spike anxiety and they know that

[Carth]

I'm old enough (as are probably a few here) to remember the power cuts of the 70's. They weren't a massive problem, they didn't last long enough to turn into one.
Back then though, before the great technology explosion (lol) the majority of people/families had a larder stocked with basic foodstuff essentials - no fridge required. The majority also had coal fires and a coal bunker usually kept at least half full of coal/coke/logs. That coal fire (sometimes in more than one room) could provide heat and light, and also hot water if there was a back boiler. If things got too 'bad', with some ingenuity you could also use it to cook some foodstuff and boil water for hot drinks.

All that is now lost to history, and if electricity and/or gas was to be cut off for 3 or 4 days there would be huge problems. IMO the Government are simply trying to prepare and educate people for such an event.