Colonial Pipeline Shutdown

**Meathelmet** · 05-12-2021, 12:56 AM

It is kind of weird/fascinating/embarrassing to see US getting owned by their old arch enemy this way, majority of population being totally clueless that they are getting shat in their cereals on daily basis. Oh well, some just have a glutton for punishment.

**abraham** · 05-12-2021, 01:11 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I’m sure they just got rear-ended by some other asshole trying to get gas and the whole mess of fat and greed blew up in a hoarders fireball of glory.

Too bad it's not a Pinto.

Originally Posted by muted reborn

Good point, they are probably just getting ready to Overland for the weekend. And maybe they need some extra because gas is running out everywhere.

Smart.

Where they are isn't it a Salt Life weekend instead? Driving on the beach ducks with your mpg.

Originally Posted by Ted Striker

Pre-Covid, that's a normal day at the Bellingham Costco.

Wouldn't those be milk containers?.

**dunfree** · 05-12-2021, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by fastfred

didn't know how week americans really were until recently
we are a week culture

the one artical I read on this a few days ago said there is nothing to worry about there will be no shortage of gas for at least 30 days
UNLESS people start panic buying then the whole system of delivery and storage will go to shit

people can't walk anymore? ride a bike? or bum a ride

goddamn man people can’t even do their home renovations themselves anymore, where you been?

**gravitylover** · 05-12-2021, 04:44 AM

Originally Posted by RShea

You are right. The number of Government networks that have been hit with Ransomware is pretty high. In 2020 Government organizations took the biggest share of ransomware attacks — 31,906, while the banking sector suffered 22,082 attacks.

That's why I made that thread the other day.

**MontuckyFried** · 05-12-2021, 05:39 AM

Originally Posted by RShea

You are right. The number of Government networks that have been hit with Ransomware is pretty high. In 2020 Government organizations took the biggest share of ransomware attacks — 31,906, while the banking sector suffered 22,082 attacks.

Yup. The sad truth about it is that they all too often bring it on themselves by being dumbasses about security whilst being super interconnected and wide open to the world.

**fastfred** · 05-12-2021, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by dunfree

goddamn man people can’t even do their home renovations themselves anymore, where you been?

most people can't hold a hammer or use a screw driver but they can hoard guns and gas and tp which makes them feel safe and strong
and how would I make money?

Originally Posted by neufox47

Laying gas cans on their side in the back of a SUV, what could go wrong!?

that car is going to smell like gas for the next year
on a cold day this fall with the heater on full blast cause it's chilly and with the window cracked a half inch she's going light up that virgina slim to sooth the hunger cravings and all those vapors soaked into the back of the suv

**Name Redacted** · 05-12-2021, 07:16 AM

I was just in ATL. Glad I got out before the mad rush for gas. What a shitshow.

**Kinnikinnick** · 05-12-2021, 07:18 AM

Can we just shut Russia out of the internet?

Like physically cut every connection into/out of Russia?

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**Timberridge** · 05-12-2021, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Kinnikinnick

Can we just shut Russia out of the internet?

Like physically cut every connection into/out of Russia?

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Al Fucking Gore. This shit's on him.

**stealurface831** · 05-12-2021, 07:27 AM

welp, the fuel range reads 30 miles. this oughta be interesting.

**east or bust** · 05-12-2021, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by stealurface831

welp, the fuel range reads 30 miles. this oughta be interesting.

I’d read an “Outta gas in Oakland City” TR any day

**snowaddict91** · 05-12-2021, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Thaleia

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All those dorky urban overlanders probably think they are hot shit right now.

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 05-12-2021, 08:16 AM

Remember when the stuck boat was a problem? I miss that.

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 05-12-2021, 08:16 AM

And falling Chinese rockets.

**gravitylover** · 05-12-2021, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Timberridge

Al Fucking Gore. This shit's on him.

Haha

Originally Posted by Kinnikinnick

Can we just shut Russia out of the internet?

Like physically cut every connection into/out of Russia?

And China and N Korea and

**Toadman** · 05-12-2021, 09:02 AM

heard on the radio that airlines are having to stop before flying into ATL to fill up with gas. They are flying planes loaded with fuel into the SE as well. That's nutz. And crazy expensive.

Putin be laughing. Next he will take down the electric grid somewhere. Then, yep, he will take away that most precious of precious...the internet.

**old_newguy** · 05-12-2021, 09:07 AM

I’ve read that they can actually pump gas down the pipeline with no issue but they can’t invoice for it because that is the system that got hacked. Not sure I trust the sources, anyone seen any reporting to that effect?

**jackstraw** · 05-12-2021, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by Kinnikinnick

Can we just shut Russia out of the internet?

Like physically cut every connection into/out of Russia?

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Maybe we should let Snowden back in to fix this shit. Or maybe he's the one doing it to us for his revenge.

**Marshall Tucker** · 05-12-2021, 09:08 AM

Fuckin rooskies. We need to nuke that place.

**BmillsSkier** · 05-12-2021, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by Name Redacted

I was just in ATL. Glad I got out before the mad rush for gas. What a shitshow.

Drive into the office this morning was interesting. Half the traffic of yesterday, easy. Every gas station I passed had yellow "out of service" bags over the pump handles.

Just walked down the hall from my partner's office whose brother is the superintendent of a very large school system in the metro and they're talking about cancelling school/going remote tomorrow and Friday because no one has gas.

**Timberridge** · 05-12-2021, 09:38 AM

In Nigeria they just cut holes in the pipelines when they need fuel. It is a bit messy and dangerous and causes some groundwater contamination, but these are desperate times.

A pipeline explosion killed up to 200 people on the outskirts of Lagos yesterday, leaving charred corpses on a sandy beach where locals tapping the pipe to steal fuel ignited the blast.

The Red Cross said the pipeline blew up in the early hours of the morning while thieves were siphoning fuel into jerry cans for sale on the black market. The explosion burned everything within a 20 metre radius. Only calcinated skulls and bones were left of five people who were closest to the pipeline, which bore marks of drilling in several places.

About 100 blackened corpses were strewn on the water's edge. Some bodies, charred and bloated, floated in the creek, which is about a mile from Lagos city centre. "You can see the corpses. Some are burnt to ash. Others are remnants. We estimate 150 to 200 people died," the Lagos state police commissioner, Emmanuel Adebayo, said at the scene.

**BmillsSkier** · 05-12-2021, 09:46 AM

I feel like there's a moral to the story in there somewhere.

**Timberridge** · 05-12-2021, 09:51 AM

Do not smoke when tapping the line?

**Aldo** · 05-12-2021, 09:58 AM

speaking of tapping pipelines - we used to ride around Nantucket in my buddys quadratrac wagoneer ( 4-5 MPG downhill ) doin the rounds. never more than a quarter tank in that thing - I soon came to realize why - those days the one station had these blond amazons in tight shorts pumping fuel. we'd be there a few times a day taking the pulse of the island - finding the weed monitoring the parties - gave new meaning to the word smoking at the pump.... Simpler times..