This means people decrying the mindset of seriously asking a question about whether this is an attack are very premature and should let the questions be asked and answered in an orderly and prompt fashion.

But my money is at least partially on federal understaffing during a shut down having a variety of downstream effects.

Given that Russia has threatened such grid attacks continually for over a decade, it has to be evaluated. It reminds me of the Russian robocalls that have threatened school attacks all over the globe but mostly in the United States in order to further degrade the future output of our education system.