Both armies were poorly organized at the start of the war since America didn’t have a standing army. The Confederate army was hardly in a condition to be laying a siege. Beyond that it was considered more practical to fight on the defensive throughout the war. Attacking Washington D.C. would have been a mistake.

Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia did have a plan to threaten the Union capital. Lee’s overall strategy was to take the fight to the Union, rather than fight on Confederate soil. His advances north did threaten Washington, but Lee didn’t attack DC directly.

Despite being the nation’s capitol, Washington remained a small city of a few thousand residents that was virtually deserted during the torrid summertime until the outbreak of the Civil War. The Confederates desired to occupy Washington and massed to take it. On April 10 forces began to trickle into the city.

PowerOutage.us is an ongoing project created to track, record, and aggregate power outages across the united states….

Top Areas by Outages
Texas	31,063
Florida	8,957
California	7,636
Arizona	7,056

Generally, the power goes out for two reasons; a circuit breaker or fuse is tripped in your home, or the power lines themselves are affected. If the power has gone out just in your house, or some items are working but some aren’t, it’s a sign that the cause is somewhere in your electrical system.

Maine

Most power outages will be over almost as soon as they begin, but some can last much longer – up to days or even weeks. Power outages are often caused by freezing rain, sleet storms and/or high winds which damage power lines and equipment. Cold snaps or heat waves can also overload the electric power system.

Typhoon Haiyan

In a 2017 report, the American Society of Civil Engineers reported that there were 3,571 total outages in 2015, lasting 49 minutes on average. The U.S. Energy Administration reports that in 2016, the average utility customer had 1.3 power interruptions, and their total blackout time averaged four hours.

Natural causes Weather is the leading cause of power outages. High winds, lightning, freezing rain, ice on the lines, and snow are all culprits. Tree branches contacting power lines and wildlife can also be what causes power outages.

Due to climate change, future extreme events that can cause power outages are projected to be more frequent and last longer. Enhancing energy security, reliability, and resilience to the effects of climate change and extreme weather will move forward through investments by utilities and their communities.

Causes range from sabotage and vandalism to fuel-supply problems and earthquakes. Extreme weather can also lead to power outages when demand for heating or air-conditioning pushes the electricity grid beyond its capacity.

That year, Luxembourg had an index score of around 100 and was tied in first with nine other countries. In today’s culture, many people cannot imagine life without electricity….Ranking of the countries with the highest quality of electricity supply in 2019.

	Score
Israel	99.9
Belgium	99.8
Japan	99.7

If the power is out long enough even the city folks will run out of water. Many homes are all electric, so as soon at the lights are out they have no heat, no hot water and they can’t cook. If the power is out, gas stations can’t pump gas. Once generators run out of gas, those people will be in the dark too.

Squirrels

1 position is no surprise: squirrels! They are King of the Power Outages, causing more than 15,000 of our animal-related outages last year with their cute scampering. Squirrels have taken down the power grid far more times than hackers.

From squirrels to birds, raccoons to even monkeys or foxes, animals are responsible for thousands ofoutages and millions of dollars in outage-related damage each year.

Squirrels and their partners in crime cause about 10-20 percent of all power outages, according to the Washington Post. Squirrel-induced power outages tend to be more localized and more quickly fixed than those caused by storms, since one little rodent can only chew so much. But they’re still a real issue.

Nearly 20 percent of weather-related outages were caused by cold weather and ice storms, and another 18 percent were caused by hurricanes and tropical storms. Only 3 percent of outages were caused by tornadoes, and 2 percent were caused by a combination of extreme heat events and wildfires.

inclement weather

So why do squirrels chew through power cables? Animal behaviorists say rodents in general are always looking for new food sources or nesting material — and squirrels in particular often look for those goodies in and around trees. Which tend to be near — you guessed it — power lines.

The answer lies in the way electricity travels. That’s safe enough because the air itself acts as an insulator: the electricity won’t spark off into the space around lines. But since the lines are uninsulated that means that squirrels running on these lines are coming into direct contact with the flow of electricity.

Our bodies turn out to be excellent conductors of electricity, and the electrical current will happily use them to complete a closed path to flow from high potential (the wire) to low potential (the ground). ZAP! So how do workers repair live electrical wires without getting hurt?

Absolutely, as long as you are not in any way grounded or connected to white common. Be VERY careful about the “not in any way grounded” part of that. The chance of your ungrounded status changing while touching that wire could be very dangerous to you.

There would be no power to use your fridge or freezer, telephone lines would be down and phone signal lost. Your mobile phones will be useless as the battery dwindles, with no back up charging option. Your gas central heating won’t work and your water supply would soon stop pumping clean water.

Experts predict that an EMP strike that wipes out electricity across the nation would ultimately lead to the demise of up to 90% of the population.

So yes, we will run out of electricity if we continue to rely on the burning of fossil fuels to drive transportation, power our personal energy devices, control the temperature of our homes, or run our industries. First, we are increasingly turning to renewables such as solar and wind for our growing electricity needs.

Here are six already under severe pressure from current rates of consumption:

1. Water. Freshwater only makes 2.5% of the total volume of the world’s water, which is about 35 million km3.
2. Oil. The fear of reaching peak oil continues to haunt the oil industry.
3. Natural gas.
4. Phosphorus.
5. Coal.
6. Rare earth elements.

We will never run out of electricity but we may run out of the fossil fuels used to produce it for domestic and industrial applications. Wind, solar and other types of renewable electricity will have to be relied on more than at present. As for electricity itself, the universe is filled with it.

It’s not unlimited. Eventually you’ll run out of fuel to spin the wheel. Also, energy is never created or destroyed, so we will always have the same relative amount. Energy can only be transferred/converted, between kinetic, electrical, elastic, potential, thermal, etc.