Will There be an Electric Grid Blackout on November 13th and 14th, 2013?

September 16th update of the news item on the upcoming electric grid test which was originally posted here on September 11, 2013.
Based on an August 16th New York Times article, it appears that this November 13th/14th drill will not involve a shut down of the electrical grid.
The North American Utility Reliability Corporation (mentioned in the above article) is in charge of planning this upcoming November drill which is called Grid Ex-II.  I wrote to Bill Lawrence who is the man in charge saying:
“Dear Mr. Lawrence, …  I have a question about the upcoming November 13th/14th test scheduled to take place in just two months.  First, I was wondering whether NERC the main agency overseeing this drill?  Also, there are postings on the internet indicating that on these days the U.S. will be participating with Canada and Mexico in an excercise to examine the system response to a hypothetical EMP event or cyber attack and some postings claim that the entire electrical grid will be shut down during these two days.  Is there any truth to this?  I need to have some informed input on this since I find this hard to believe.”
He responded:
“Dr. LaViolette, NERC is running a simulated exercise to practice crisis response and information sharing.  No real power outages will occur due to this exercise.  The scenario does not involve EMP.”
Checking out the NERC website, one finds that this is an expanded version of a Grid drill that they had previously conducted in November 2011.  Apparently, there is a lot of misinformation that was posted about this on the internet that was not previously checked out.  So disregard concerns voiced in my original posting that this exercise will involve a planned blackout and speculations that its dates may have been chosen to prepare for a real event.
I have used strikethroughs to indicate material to disregard in my previously revised posting below.
Compounding my concerns expressed in the previous posting about the FEMA emergency preparedness for Region 3, are recent internet news stories reporting that there will be a two-day electric grid shut down in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico on November 13th and 14th, 2013.
Here are a few links to postings about this event:
http://www.survivetheapocalypse.net/2013/08/29/power-grid-down-november-2013/
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/09/when-the-lights-go-out-on-november-13-2013-2756838.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
 This one predicts that it may coincide with a false flag operation: http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/09/07/when-the-lights-go-out-on-november-13-2013/
But there is still uncertainty as to whether there will be an actual shut down of the electric grid or just a test or simulation of a grid EMP attack.  It is really difficult to tell from these news postings because both ideas are being circulated.  This confusion may be due to people lacking a clear official statement of what is planned for these days.  I have been unable to check this out with any U.S. electric utilities since I am currently in Europe.  But one viewer strongly feels that this is just a test simulation and not an actual power black out (see reader comments below).
As I have warned in previous publications and outreach projects, a galactic superwave would deliver a strong EMP pulse at the time of its arrival, possibly threatening the electric grid, GPS satellites, and cellular telephone systems.  One way to protect the electric grid would be to shut it down during the time of superwave arrival.  So, if there will be an actual grid shut down on this date, this provokes the question as to whether this date was chosen arbitrarily, or was it selected to coincide with a predicted superwave arrival date or arrival of some other celestial hazard such as a Carrington event solar flare knowledge of which is being kept secret from the public?  If it is just a simulation with no power black out being planned, then this becomes a non issue.
Having advanced knowledge the certain occurrence of a major solar flare on a particular date seems a bit farfetched.  Besides, even though we are currently at solar maximum, a major solar outburst seems less likely given that the current maximum is far smaller in magnitude than previous cycles and that solar activity is currently on a long-term decline.
Knowing the precise date of a superwave arrival also seems a bit difficult to accept since currently no elevated activity has been seen at the Galactic center, even with the present threatening approach of the G2 cloud.  So knowing that something this far in advance would entail that authorities (presumably associated with highly classified black projects) had  received a message or communication about the superwave’s deep space location with this information being conveyed at a speed faster than the speed of light since the superwave itself would approach us at very close to the speed of light.  How would this be possible?  Through superluminal spacetravel?  Prior communications with informed ETs?
Interestingly, in his October 2008 Project Camelot interview, a person using the pseudonym “Jake Simpson” claimed exactly this.  He said that a person with need to know clearance had disclosed to him that a wave-like cataclysmic phenomenon (likely a galactic cosmic ray volley) would be impacting our planet beginning somewhere between 2017 and 2020, without having been given the exact date.  He said that military leaders had known for many decades that a catastrophe of huge magnitude would occur early in the 21st century and had learned this through ET contact.  He also said that people responsible for the unacknowledged U.S. black projects had received confirmation by sending out a highly advanced faster-than-light spacecraft to “take a look” and that they had returned to report back with the information.  Although this story may be difficult for the average person to believe, it is true that we have developed technologies capable of faster-than-light space travel as described in my book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion.
Also of interest is an April 2009 Project Camelot posting of correspondence they had with the wife of a senior electrical engineer.  Her husband had been privately briefed about a cyclic cosmic EMP event that was to definitely to occur in 3 to 4 years that would render the electrical grid and every transformer connected to it useless if preventative measures were not taken.  Her time frame places this at the latest around 2013.  She said that knowledge of the event was being kept secret from the public and that it would affect the whole planet, that it had something to do with Earth’s encounter with “electromagnetic clouds in space”.  She said that they were desperately trying to find a solution to the problem and if they didn’t, the entire global electrical system would go down.  Electromagnetic clouds in space (presumably meant to approach from outside the solar system) resembles more a superwave event than a solar flare or coronal mass ejection event.  Could this upcoming grid EMP exercise be connected with the event she is referring to?  If an actual grid shut down is planned, could this be an intentional preventative measure to limit potential EMP damage to the electrical grid?
Is this upcoming electric grid exercise merely a simulation?  Or will it indeed involve a two-day shut down of all electric utility supplies everywhere in North America?  If it is the latter, it strikes me that the loss of income from closed businesses during this period would be staggering.  November 13th and 14th fall on a Wednesday and Thursday, hence on working days two weeks before Thanksgiving.   Why wasn’t it scheduled for a weekend to have less of an economic impact?  It seems unlikely that a grid shutdown would have received Presidential approval unless there were some undisclosed pressing reason for conducting it, particularly over such a long length of time and on these particular working days.  Could this be a measure to save the grid from a real cosmic ray EMP event?  Hopefully it is instead just a personnel and utility system test and we will not need to plan for a power outage.
To learn more about the electric grid vulnerabilities from severe space events, you may be interested to read this report from a National Research Council workshop held in May 2008: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12507.  Also here is advice on disaster preparation which former NASA director Charles Bolden made to his NASA employees in 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzjhSDD_kM.
There is evidence that our planet may have been impacted by as many as 13 minor superwave events in the past 5300 years.  As many of 8 of these appear to be registered in the geologic record, as described in this Starburst Foundation news posting:
http://starburstfound.org/independent-confirmation-arrival-minor-superwave-event-774-ad/  This evidence indicates that we are currently overdue for another event.
You can find information about superwaves and superwave preparedness by going to the following pages on this site:
• http://etheric.com/galactic-superwaves/
• http://starburstfound.org/steps-that-should-be-taken-for-superwave-preparedness/
Hopefully we will have more information in the next week as to whether the November 13th/14th event will be just a procedure simulation or an actual grid shut down.  Anyone who has obtained official information about this from their local electric utility or Homeland Security office, please comment.
Paul A. LaViolette
September 11, 2013
updated September 15, 2