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Hi , I'm Larry Graham , the Utilities

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Branch chief for the Director of Public

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Works here at Fort Riley . And today

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I'm going to speak with you about the

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army directed Black Star exercise . My

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kids have always said that when you see

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the weather man roll up their sleeves ,

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something serious is coming and my

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sleeves are rolled up as this coming

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exercise is very serious to everyone

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working and living on Fort Riley . We

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have spent the last several months

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planning the Black Star exercise so

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that we can find the gaps in our

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contingency plans and our

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infrastructure so that we can focus our

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future improvements on making for

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Reilly a more resilient installation .

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So knowing all that on July 26 we're

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going to cut the power to Fort Riley

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for a minimum of eight hours . The

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majority of the soldiers and civilians

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on Fort Riley will experience the

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entire eight hour outage duration . But

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with our due diligence , the majority

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of our housing areas will have a

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limited impact as part of the exercise .

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With a few exceptions , in the limited

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outage impact areas , you will lose

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power for approximately two hours while

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city light and power also known as CLP

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sets conditions at our primary

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substation to re energize it once

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conditions are set . CLP will re

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energize the substation and those

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housing areas , power should be

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restored . I have a map courtesy of CLP

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that shows the full and limited

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impacted areas for the exercise .

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The red outlined areas will experience

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the entire eight hour outage duration

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and the green outlined areas are the

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limited impacted areas in the saying

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attributed to Prussian Field Marshal ,

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Helmut Von Moke , no plan survives

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first contact with the enemy . We need

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everyone to take that saying to heart

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because even with all of our planning

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efforts and system knowledge , we

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cannot prevent system failures . With

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that in mind , everyone's overarching

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thought process for this exercise

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should be prepared whether you are in

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a limited impacted area or not ,

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everyone needs to be prepared . They

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may be without power for the entire

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eight hour duration of the exercise .

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More information will be coming out

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here in the near future . About the

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exercise . Please pay attention to what

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is being said as a well informed

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population is close to being a prepared

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population along with our electrical

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distribution partner city , light and

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power . We thank you for your time

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today .